#like you maybe get a better understanding of the Guardians backgrounds

[folder-stuff]

I steamed with these drawings for a long time, but it was worth it.

When I drew the designs of the guardians, all sorts of ideas came to mind about what happened while Cornelia lived in Meridian. I really like what I came up with, and I'll try to explain why I drew it all at all.

In general, as you know, in this alternative, Cornelia went with Caleb to Meridian, leaving her family and friends, as well as the post of a guardian. This event has greatly shaken Will's confidence in herself as a leader who is obliged to unite girls. Especially after the arch with Nerissa, where she almost lost the Heart of Kandrakar. And don't forget about Taranee's doubts, because of which she even left the team in the canon. In general, Will had reasons to give the leader's place to a new member of the team - Orube. "Maybe someone else can handle it better?" she thought.

At first, it seemed to be a good idea to run away from responsibility. However, girls didn't think so. No one recognized Orube as a leader for many reasons, one of which was Will's authority as the previous head. And when the girls were looking for support in her, she couldn't provide it, because she's not as solid as Orube or Cornelia. Will is a sensitive nature, the heart of the team, not its foundation, and she isn't able to return everyone from heaven to earth because of her character.

Hence the main conflict was born: Will couldn't cope with the role of the guardian of the earth, since she wasn't able to take the position of Cornelia in the team. She felt out of place and understood that she used to be more effective. Against the background of the defeat that has already happened after Cornelia's departure and Taranee's doubts, this aggravated the feeling of failure, inferiority complex and hesitation. Confidence is the main quality of the guardian of the earth, and she lost it without even starting to develop in herself.

This is where the main dilemma began: she wanted the leader's place back. But not only because she realized her incompetence as a guardian of the earth. It's also about the Heart of Kandrakar. From the very moment of Orube's appearance and the transfer of the Heart, Will heard its call, at first barely perceptible, but growing stronger every day. With the understanding of where she really belonged, Will missed the feeling of unity with the Heart of Kandrakar, with its warmth and power. And it scared her. Because she began to see Nerissa in herself, to hear her phrases in her head and to dream that she's turning into a recently defeated enemy...

This is exactly what I wanted to convey in my first work: the binding vines that strangle Will and don't allow her to move; the imitation of the Heart of Kandrakar, which no longer belongs to her; fear from the desire to possess what she can no longer possess.

I hope I have enough strength to make a post about Orube, because I did the drawing for a long time and was a little tired =_=

In the second picture, I wanted to show Will's routine and her new powers. She conjures only plants, often flowers, as it's more difficult for her to cope with heavy stones and hard earth. This is due to fading self-confidence and lack of firmness in actions and decisions. She's effective in combat, but things don't always work out the way she intended, which makes her angry at the plants, as if they're a computer hanging at the wrong moment. She had to learn to cope with vines and flowers so that they were useful.

Also, these plants often get in the way and grow when and where it isn't necessary. For example, they can cling to the legs and grow while Will sleeps.

[bayothemayo]

ORAAAAAA!!!!!!! ⊂( ´ ▽ ` )⊃ GUESS WHOS BACK FOR ROUND 3 BBYYYY HEHEHE ~ ☆ (hope it's okay, if not then SHHH KEEP THIS REQ STASHED SOMEWHERE) but I'd like to req: Akira Kurusu x Motherly!Reader, where they first met cos Reader was worried about him during his time in Shujin, and stuck around him during his first few days there (kind of like Ryuji/Morgana in a way during the first arc of the game (?)). Fun and simple idea of Reader being the mum friend to the whole PTs group after (or when) she finds out about them and their identities, while also being completely oblivious to her own well being IF she ever became part of the group. I'd also like it if the HC starts off Platonic and slowly turns to Romantic? Where Akira realizes his feelings and tries confessing to Reader BUT Reader still viewed him in a platonic way?? branch whatever ideas you can come up with for this idm AND AGAIN TYTTT AND SLAY AS ALWAYSSSS !!!!!!!!! ☆⌒(≧▽​° )

Guardian of the Phantom Thieves (Akira Kurusu x Motherly! Reader)

Even before you met Kurusu and the rest Phantom Thieves, you were respected in the school.

Teachers and students respect you for helping them out and tutoring them.

When Kurusu joined the school you got worried about him, due to people being afraid of him due to his background. You offered to help him with whatever he needed and gave him a tour around the school. You stayed by his side for around a week or two due to his situation.

Kurusu always comes to you if he needs help with his work or advice.

When you are not busy, either it being with helping people out or dealing with homework, you two hang out. It is mostly a chill type of hangout.

It took you some time to find out that your friends were the Phantom Thieves. When you found out, you were mostly worried about them. Yeah, they are THE Phantom Thieves...but you were worried about them. Worried that they can get too hurt or overwork themselves. After they send out a Calling Card, you text them after a little bit (you don't want to stress them out before them doing something big) asking if they are doing okay, if they are seriously injured, if they need any help with something, etc.

Something that you do after they finish a big job is that you make them treats. They have no say in the matter other than what treats they want.

With all these things that you do for Kurusu and the other Phantom Thieves, he appreciates you. A lot. Maybe too much for it to be platonic.

When he realizes that he has developed feelings for you, he starts to think to himself about how this is going to affect you two's relationship. After some hard thinking, and maybe asking for advice from Ann or maybe even Morgana, he decides to confess to you.

If you reject him and want to keep the relationship platonic, he would be heartbroken but he would understand how you feel and is still happy to keep the friendship.

If you accept his confession, he will be over the moon. Once you two become a couple, there is going to be a whole lot of comfort, snuggles, and more tasty treats involved.

~ When You Become A Phantom Thief ~

You most likely be more of a support member of the team like Morgana. Yeah, you have some attacks, but your main skill is the buffs and healing.

You were excited to be in the Phantom Thieves since you get to be more involved and help out more directly.

Since you found out that snacks can heal your teammates, you make some more snacks and find better ingredients for better results.

Sometimes you overwork yourself, you can't help it . Akira notices this and, caringly, scolds you. It took some time but eventually, you got the issue fix. If it didn't it would definitely end up bad in one way or another.

You are a supportive member of the Phantom Thieves and you couldn't be more proud.

But you are more proud of your friends. 😊

[theraggedygirl11]

Baš ja, koji nisam verovao da za nekim biću lud

Bojan's POV

Kris' POV: AO3 - Tumblr

SUMMARY: In a world where Heaven and Hell exist, angels and demons are constantly fighting and killing one another. What if a demon easily dominated by his emotions falls in love with a stoic and cold angel trained to kill demons?

PAIRING: Bojan Cvjetićanin/Kris Guštin

WARNINGS: swearing, blood, implied violence, hurt/comfort, implied suicide, emotional rollercoaster, enemies to lovers, hint of jance in the background

WORDS COUNT: 5.094

LINK: AO3

NOTES: Hello! Welcome to my first ever BoKris fic. It all started from this post by @arctixout and that damn tag (for reference: #stoic angel!kris and demon!bojan who's slave to his emotions and then they somehow fall in love wait who said that). And what could I do? It was too juicy to not write something out of it! So here we are.

Besides, as you can see from the title, I used Bluza (Youtube video and lyrics+translation) as my inspiration (and background music while writing), and this songs plays a role in the plot too 👀 yeah, I know we all think this is a BoJere song, but in this fic it's a BoKris fic, you'll understand why

Also, thanks to my beta @anxious-witch!

Last but not the least, I did this aestethic/moodboard trying to match @arctixout gifs

“You should talk to him.”

“Why? He's a demon. He's impure, a damned soul.”

“And you love him.”

“Angels can't love. He started corrupting me.”

“Angels can love and they must love. It's not corruption.”

“How can you tell it's not his corruption, Jan?!”

“Because I fell in love with a demon too. And I accepted it. Go to him, speak to him. He’s singing for you.”

When humans think about demons, the mental image they have is that of a terrifying creature, maybe with huge bat wings, a tail with an arrowhead at the end, claws, horns, red skin, maybe even hooves instead of feet.

Well, we do have a tail, and wings, and claws, but nothing alike of what you see in those pictures, and not every demon has them. We own a human form, just like everyone on this planet, that we use to roam among mortals. We have feelings, desires, hobbies, friends and families. Our only drawback is being born a demon from demon parents. We are guardians in Hell, we just watch over the damned souls who doomed themselves to suffering.

Heaven knows this, angels too, but they deliberately chose to not see this, to hate us, and they kill us with no hesitation when they find us on Earth. They think we are impure beings that don’t deserve to live.

And this is what led me, a demon, to meet the most beautiful creature ever seen on every plane of existence. I fell in love with an angel, I don’t even know his name, but I will discover it.

He almost killed me, I was terrified for my life, but he stopped when our eyes met, the sharp point of his dagger barely touched my throat. Something exploded in my chest, my heart was beating so fast. I've never felt something similar to what I felt at that moment.

And since that night I find myself staring at the sky so often, during both daytime and nighttime. Am I a hopeless romantic that waits for his angel to come and get him? Oh yeah, you can bet on it. And I'll wait for him to appear for eternity, if necessary.

* * *

“Bojan, come on!” Shouts Nace, one of my dearest demon friends. “We are late!”

I turn my eyes in his direction. I was staring at the sky, again. As always, no signs of my angel. He will appear, I’m sure of it, but this is not that day. I sigh, then reach Nace and Jure.

“Still looking for that feathered ass?” Jure asks.

“I…yes. I’d like to meet him again.”

“It’s better if you forget him, he will try to kill you again the next time he sees you,” says Jure while looking me in the eyes.

“He’s different. I’m sure of it. He didn’t kill me.”

“No, but he was about to,” replies Nace. “You know better than us that those winged assholes can’t be reasoned with.”

I lower my eyes, aware of the truth behind Nace’s words. We lost so many of our demon friends because of angels. But maybe…maybe he’s not like the other angels. I saw something in his eyes, something different, this sparkle.

With this thought in mind, I followed Nace and Jure to our destination: there’s a concert of a human band we all like, so we decided to go. We enjoy music so much, we also joke about forming a band together and tour together on Earth, among mortals, but that would put too much attention on us. It’s too dangerous. But at least we can enjoy concerts and gigs!

I’m dancing, taken away by the rhythm of the songs, when my gaze meets familiar eyes in the crowd, two amazing blue-green seas. I completely stop, and so does he. The music and every other sound disappears along with the people around me.

We stare at each other for moments that seem to last decades, blue into brown, light into darkness, Heaven into Hell, a perfect but forbidden combination, something that should never exist.

This magic spell breaks when I feel a hand on my shoulder and immediately after a tight grip. I turn and see Nace on my side, who is harshly staring at my angel. Jure appears on my other side.

I turn again towards my angel and I see two other people near him, one of them with dark and long messy hair and a beard, the other one with shorter hair but well combed and a trimmed beard. They are definitely angels. And they know we are demons.

The guy with messy hair steps in our direction, but my angel stops him, raising his hand and using it as a barrier. The dark-haired angel steps back and quickly glances at his friend. No one says a word.

“Bojči, let’s go,” Jure whispers into my ear, then grabs my arm and pulls me away.

I keep looking at my angel until I can no longer see him in the crowd.

In the next weeks Nace and Jure forbid me to go to the surface, but I sneak out. Every other demon could tell that my self-preservation instinct got fried because I want to talk to that angel, at all costs.

I keep looking at the sky, searching for him. Waiting for him to show up. And every single time nothing happens. But I’m stubborn, I won’t give up.

Tonight the sky is clear, stars are shining bright, and there's a small crescent moon. I'm lying on a patch of grass in the middle of nowhere, around me only trees and mountains. 

Suddenly a shadow partially covers the sky above me.

“What are you doing here all alone?”

I startle and stand up immediately, recoiling scared. When I recognise the person in front of me, I wide my eyes and open my mouth in surprise.

“Angel,” I whisper.

It’s dark, but I can sense his piercing blue eyes on me. He’s tall, taller than Jure and Nace too. His cheekbones are prominent, I can for sure cut myself while stroking them. Maybe I’m a masochist, but I want to touch them and feel them under my hands and bleed for him. He’s standing straight, rigid like a soldier, or maybe a general, I can’t tell his celestial rank.

“I repeat, since you seem to not understand my words, what are you doing here all alone?”

Shivers run down my whole body, his voice is…ok, this might sound cheeky, but yes, his voice sounds angelic, a slow caress of a lover on my back down to my waist. 

“I was looking for you.”

“For me?” He’s surprised.

“Yes, for you. I wanted to talk to you, angel.”

Now he’s confused. Well, not every day a demon comes looking for an angel. I go closer to him, moving slowly.

“I’m not armed,” I show him my hands. “You can check on me. This is not a trap.”

His eyes follow every single movement I do, even more carefully when I’m in front of him. I stare at his face, stunned by his beauty. I lift a hand to touch it, but I stop mid-air. No, I can’t touch him, my dirty hands can only ruin his perfection.

“Why do you want to talk to me, exactly?”

“I…I want to know you, angel.”

“I beg your pardon, you want to know…me?”

“Yes,” I nod. “You are amazingly beautiful, angel,” I let slip this comment, without realising. 

I notice a weird red-ish colour on his face. Did I just make him blush? I chuckle, he replies with a shy smile. Oh, he’s so wonderful! That smile almost made me melt on the spot. 

“Would you like to…I don’t know, come grab a coffee or anything else to drink?”

Who said that angels and demons can’t get along well? They must have never met an angel, then.

My angel, whose name is Kris, is a pleasant company. Well, he’s still a little bit rigid, but since that night when we had a couple of drinks together in a bar he became much more open and relaxed and he smiles so much now! Oh, I adore his smile. And his laugh too! 

We started going out together here and there, but every time it happens, my heart almost explodes out of joy. I can’t wait to see him again and again and again. Jure and Nace are worried for me, but I feel safe around Kris. He’s not like the other angels.

Our “dates” are pretty diverse. Sometimes we just hang out in some park or in the middle of wild places; once we sat on a cliff for hours, we talked and we observed the environment, at least Kris, I was too busy looking at him with heart eyes. Some other time we choose a city and we explore it, we can just appear anywhere in the world, a perk of being supernatural creatures!

This night though is special. Tonight I will confess my feelings to Kris. By now we have been seeing each other for some months and I’m completely sure about my love for him. Yes, I, a demon, fell in love with an angel, I’m not afraid of saying it, I want to shout it from the top of a building.

I’m putting on some makeup. I’m in front of the mirror in the bathroom of a small apartment I rented for when I’m roaming around on Earth. Jure and Nace are with me in the room, they are still worried for me.

“Are you sure of what you are about to do?” Nace asks.

“Yes, never been so sure in my long demonic life,” I reply.

“But he’s an angel, Bojči,” Jure whispers. “He’s dangerous. What if he’s playing with you?”

“He’s not, Jurček. I see how he looks at me, he…I think he’s in love with me too,” I glance at him through the mirror. 

“Angels are sly creatures, you can’t trust them,” Jure adds.

“They say the same stuff about us, you know?” 

I smile at my reflection. That black eyeshadow with glitter is perfect for me, my eyes are shining. “I love him, I’m going to tell him this. Tonight will be a special night, nothing can change this.”

We hear the sound of wings in the living room. He’s here.

I almost run in the room, a huge smile appears on my lips when I see him. He’s wearing beige trousers, a shirt with light colours and floral designs and a silver jacket. He’s from Heaven, no one can be mistaken. And his clothes collide with mine: I’m wearing black trousers and a black t-shirt, when we’ll go out I planned to wear a bright red leather jacket. He’s the good boy, I’m the bully, the bad boy.

“You are stunning, ljubavi .”

“You…too, Bojan.”

I notice his eyes passing over me. I turn and I see Jure and Nace.

“Oh, yeah, these are my dearest friends. This is Jure,” and I point to the blonde demon. “And this is Nace,” I move my hand towards the tattooed demon. “They are safe, they won’t hurt you. I ask you to do the same.”

“...fine,” he grants. His eyes turn back to me. I notice hesitation in him.“You put on makeup.” 

“Yes, just for you. Do you like it?”

“You…look good.”

I grab his hand. “I have a surprise for you. Close your eyes and follow me.”

I practically pull Kris to the bathroom, where I make him sit on the edge of the bathtub.

“What are you trying to do, little demon?”

“I told you, it’s a surprise,” I reply while I take the palette I bought the other day. I start putting makeup on his face, I chose a wonderful golden eyeshadow for him. I admire my work.

“You are otherworldly, ljubavi . Open your eyes.”

Kris opens his eyes and looks in the mirror. I observe his reaction: I can read astonishment in his face.

“Gold is your colour. It suits you perfectly.”

“I-It does,” he whispers.

I smile and kiss him on the cheek. “We can go, then. I have other surprises for you, my angel.”

Our first stop is at a wonderful restaurant where we had already eaten so many times because it’s Kris’ favourite. I let him order whatever he wants and then pay for the whole dinner. We talk about many topics, but Kris is weirdly more silent than usual.

“Is everything ok, ljubavi ?” 

“Yeah, sure, don't worry. I…had a rough day in Heaven, that's all.”

I smile fondly at him, then gently grab his hand and slowly stroke its back.

“Now it's time for you to relax, then. Enjoy this night out.”

Our eyes lock. I see him relaxing a bit, the shadow of whatever happened retreating.

Once dinner is finished, we take a long walk into the city centre. It's almost summer, the temperatures are pleasant, so many other humans are around. We blend in, looking like a proper couple, even because we are holding hands.

When we arrive at our final destination of the night, I bring Kris to the top of a building, so we can be alone and closer to the sky, his home.

“Why did you bring me here?” Kris asks.

I shake one hand in the air, around us many candles appear and some slow music starts spreading, embracing us. I turn towards my angel and offer him my hand.

“Would you like to dance with me, Kris?”

He looks at me, confused, but then takes it. I lay my other hand on his waist and smile at him. We start dancing, slowly. My angel is a bit embarrassed, but he tries to follow my lead.

“Just let the music flow over you. Hear it inside of you and allow it to take control over your body,” I whisper to him with a tender voice.

A few seconds later Kris is more relaxed and we are dancing more fluidly, following the rhythm and the melody. I can’t stop smiling while I look at my angel. He’s so beautiful, so ethereal, so perfect. I can see stars reflecting into his eyes, an entire galaxy in which I could lose myself, bewitched by its beauty.

We keep dancing along with the music, but the more we dance, the more I see a shadow coming back in Kris’ eyes, until he leaves my hands and takes two steps back.

“We can’t go on doing this, Bojan.”

“Why not? I don’t understand.”

“Because we can’t! You are a demon, and I’m an angel. We are not supposed to…mingle.”

“We are not mingling, ljubavi . This is a romantic date between two creatures who have feelings for each other.”

I grab the angel's hands and look him in the eyes.

“Kris, I'm not the monster Heaven teaches you to despise. You saw me, you got to know me.”

“You are still a demon, Bojan, no matter how you behave or what you do.”

“And so? What does it change between us?”

“I'm a freaking angel! We are supposed to fight each other, not…doing this, dancing alone like two teenagers in love!”

“Only because we are not human teenagers? Because we come from two different places? Because others tell us that we should hate each other?” I clutch his hands between mine. “You know me,” I repeat. It’s the truth, we have been seeing each other for some months now. I bring one of his hands on my chest, right over my heart. “This heart is yours, ljubavi , and no one else’s.”

“Bojan, this is wrong .”

“Kris, I love you. What's wrong with that?” I feel my heart sink into my chest. “You…don't love me?”

“No, Bojan. I don’t love you. Let’s stop pretending.”

My heart stops beating in that exact moment and I feel my head spin. The ground under my feet is crumbling. I’m falling even if I’m right in front of Kris, my angel. I struggle breathing.

“I-I’m not pretending.”

“Don’t lie, Bojan. You are a demon, all demons do is lie. You know who and what I am, you saw weakness in me because I didn’t kill you that day. You are corrupting me because you want me to lose my wings!”

“I know you are an angel and nothing else! I-I don't want you to lose your wings!” There’s panic in my voice, and maybe it’s showing on my face too. “I’m not lying!”

“You want to bring me to the path of perdition! You want me to fall, just like Lucifer.”

I let Kris' hands go and recoil, stuttering. My heart is clenched, it can’t beat.

“I-I’m not, Kris. I-I don’t want to-”

“Stop lying!” He shouts and his eyes begin shining out of celestial power. “You are a filthy demon. You don’t change, you just want to destroy us.”

I recoil again, scared, I even fall on the ground. I stand up then turn and run away as fast as I can. Tears sting my eyes violently, they want to come out and a few seconds later they manage to do so. My makeup is for sure ruined and dripping down my face. 

I feel like an idiot. I hoped that Kris would be different, but what was I thinking? He's an angel, those creatures are heartless killers when it comes to demons like me. Their hatred for us is blind, almost innate. I just got another proof.

Nace and Jure were right. Angels and demons are not meant to be together. Then why did I, a demon, fall in love with an angel? If we are supposed to be mortal enemies, then why was I destined to lose my reason for a celestial creature that would slaughter me just because I am what I am? Just why? Will I ever get an answer? 

I’ve been locked in my room in a building in Hell for…who knows how much time. I don’t want to see anyone, neither Nace nor Jure. I keep crying, stopping the tears coming out of my eyes is difficult, or dare I say even impossible. My heart is shattered.

Why are demons born with such intense feelings? Why can’t we control them like angels do? Or are we cursed to be dominated by our emotions exactly because angels don’t have them?They teach us that the universe needs balance, so if angels can’t feel, someone else must feel double the time. 

I wrap my body with my arms, trying to look smaller. My tail is out, wrapped around my leg. It’s a pathetic endeavour to not feel so alone and abandoned. 

I wince when I feel a hand on my shoulder. I open my eyes and see Nace sitting by my side. He’s visibly worried.

“Bojči, what happened?”

I sob. “Y-you were right about him. He-he’s a heartless angel, just like anyone else of them,” I stutter, my voice is trembling.

Nace lays on my bed, facing me, then pulls me over to hug me. I plant my face against his chest. I feel his hand running up and down my back.

“Not every angel is heartless.”

“He is, Nace!” I shout, utter despair in my voice. “He is! I showed him my love and he accused me of trying to corrupt him! I-I gave him my whole heart and he laughed at me, he stabbed it with his ice dagger and killed me-” I stop. I can still hear his words in my mind. “H-He called me a filthy demon, Nace. After all I did for him and showed him, I-I’m still a filthy demon to him.”

My friend says nothing, he just stays there and cuddles me, attempting to make me feel a little bit better. 

And since that day I kind of started feeling better. Well, it’s more of a euphemism. Let’s say that I was barely surviving. I came back to my chores as a demon, but now I don’t smile anymore, or very little. I’m quiet. I prefer to stay alone than in the middle of a crowd. With me I have a small notebook in which I write my thoughts, ideas, feelings, and also lyrics. I can’t be a singer in the human world, but no one can stop me from writing what I feel, what I experience. 

This is how I wrote a song about my angel and how I fell in love with him. It has a stupid name too. I can write good songs, but I’m not able to name them. I will find a better one, one day. Hopefully.

“What are you writing in that notebook?” Asks Jure while sitting next to me.

We are in the human world, more precisely in a park. We needed some fresh air and some sunlight. 

“It’s nothing…” I answer.

Jure leans forward to read. “Is this about him?”

I nod. There’s no one else in my mind. I don’t like his presence, he’s haunting me, my mind is working against me. 

“It’s really intense,” Jure whispers. “Do you really love him?”

I nod again. “I know I’m a stupid demon. I should move on, forget him, but I can’t. He doesn’t love me back, he said it,” I sigh. “I’m just hoping to forget him as soon as possible. Maybe writing this stuff will help me process this stupid feeling.”

“Love isn’t stupid!”

“My love is absolutely stupid. An angel, Jurček! I’m a freaking demon and I fell in love with an angel.”

“You are not the first one.”

“Yeah, and how many of them survived? Are they here to tell their love story? No, Jurček, because angels killed them. I’m lucky I’m still alive.”

Jure pushes me with his shoulder. “Don’t lose hope, Bojči. There’s always time to change.”

I look at him. I don’t believe his words. Months have passed since my last moment with my angel, his shiny eyes are still impressed in my mind. He was about to kill me that night. 

No, he won’t change. Kris is an angel, full stop. He’s born to despise demons like me. I just need to accept that, but it will take time.

Is this despair that is guiding my actions? Possibly. Will I regret my decisions? Almost certainly. But if I can’t be with my angel, then I’d rather be dead, maybe slaughtered by him directly. That would be pretty ironic, wouldn’t it? A demon executed by the angel he’s fallen in love with. There’s poetry behind all of this. Maybe demons will use me as an example to the younglings to warn them to not fall in love with angels if they want to live.

I tried to forget him, move on, but every time I close my eyes, I see him. He's haunting me. And with him also the lyrics of the song I wrote for him. 

I’m in the middle of an abandoned industrial area. I prepared an amplifier with a microphone and a computer. I recorded some music for my song and I will perform it for the first (and last) time here, hoping that my angel is listening to me and will come to…I don’t know, to do anything. I’m ready for whatever he will decide to do to me. Included death.

I test the volume and the music. Everything sounds good, so I play the music and I start singing, looking directly at the sky.

“ Stolicu primakni, ruku mi dotakni, noćas ti si moja muza, ja u ritmu tvoga bluza ću da plešem bez prestanka .”

Nothing. The sky is blue, there’s not a single cloud, not a single sign of feathered wings. I continue singing.

“ Soba nam je mala. Ja ko pijana budala, a ni čaše nisam popio. Ja mislim da sam se zaljubio u tebe. Baš ja, koji nisam verovao da za nekim biću lud. Za tebe, kao u pesmama i filmovima ljubavnim, staviću zvuk .”

Still nothing. But I won’t lose hope, I will keep singing for him. He will show up, eventually. I just need a sign, Kris, please, I’m begging you.

“ Samo se okreni, baci pogled prema meni. Preći će tišina sama kilometre među nama dok jednom srce otkuca .”

Now it’s again time for the refrain. Some tears started running down my face, but I continue singing, I must, even if he won’t appear. I need to take these feelings out of my heart or it will explode. Maybe it will be my heart to kill me and not my angel.

“ Soba nam je mala. Ja ko pijana budala, a ni čaše nisam popio. Ja mislim da sam se zaljubio u tebe. Baš ja, koji nisam verovao da za nekim biću lud. Za tebe, kao u pesmama i filmovima ljubavnim, staviću zvuk .”

I see something in the sky, then the clear sound of wings hits me. I lower my eyes and I find Kris right in front of me. I see his three pairs of wings. A seraph, I should have guessed. Of course, I fell in love with one of the most powerful angels in the sky. When I do something, it’s always something big or I’m not happy with the result.

I kneel in front of him. Now I’ll sing the last part of my song.

“ Ne palite još svetla, još samo jedan tren da se nagledam lepote te. Ne palite još svetla. Ne prizivajte dan. Spasite me, smislite neki plan. Ako svane sunce, ostaću sam .”

The music stops. I’m looking at my angel, finally here for me. I’m breathing deeply, my heart is racing in my chest. My hand that’s holding the microphone is shaking. I’m afraid of what might happen, but at the same time I’m relieved. 

“You came,” I whisper.

“You called.”

Silence falls again between us. Kris slowly approaches, his facial expression is cold, hiding every emotion. I have pure angelic power in front of me, a deadly machine trained to kill my kind, and I’m looking at him in adoration.

“You know I should kill you right now because you are on Earth and not in Hell, right?”

“Then do it. I won’t fight, I won’t run away. If I can’t be with you, I’d rather be dead.”

Kris averts his eyes and presses his lips together, then talks. 

“You are an idiot, Bojan.”

“Yeah, I know, ljubavi . Love made me lose my mind in a way I didn’t think possible.”

“You said that in the song.”

I chuckle. “Maybe it’s just one of the many flaws that make us demons so imperfect in front of you angels. I was so unlucky to fall in love with you, but I don’t consider myself unlucky. I had the best moments of my life with you, I don’t want to change this for anything else in this world, not even a place in Heaven, if this means that I will lose my ability to love so strongly.”

I let the microphone fall on the ground and grab Kris’ sword, he has it in his hand, then I lay his sharp point right on my heart.

“You are here for this, no? Killing another impure soul that doesn’t follow the rules.”

Kris looks at me, finally. I smile, those eyes are so cold and so beautiful at the same time.

“Don’t make me do this, Bojan.”

“It’s ok, ljubavi . It’s ok. It’s…it’s your nature, you have been trained to do this your whole life.”

My voice trembles with emotions. Tears keep running down my face. No, I realise I’m not ready to die. I want to live, to be with him, but I know I can’t. It’s not allowed.

I feel the point of his sword pressed against my chest. In a few seconds it will reach my heart, and it will stop beating. I close my eyes.

But nothing happens. I’m still here, alive, breathing. I hear a metal sound against the ground, then two hands cup my face and I feel warm and soft lips pressed on mine.I open wide my eyes. Kris is kneeling on the ground in front of me and he’s kissing me.

I close my eyes again. I kiss him back, desperate to feel him, to make him feel my love through that act. I gently grab his wrists. 

When we interrupt the kiss, I touch Kris’ forehead with mine. I keep my eyes closed, trying to process what just happened.  

“Please, let it be real,” I whisper, without even realising it. “Please, please, let it be real.”

Kris chuckles. “It’s real, Bojan.”

I open my eyes and part a bit from him, just to look him in the eyes. “Real-real kind of way or…real-I’m-in-some-sort-of-Heaven-for-demons-because-I’m-dead kind of way?” I ask.

My angel gently strokes my cheeks, then leans forward to kiss me again. 

“This kind of way, my little demon,” he whispers against my lips. I shiver thanks to that lovely nickname. I hate being called little because it reminds me of my lack of height, but I’d let Kris call me whatever he wants, just to hear his voice again and again.

“I’m your little demon, then?”

Kris nods while looking me in the eyes. He caresses my lower lip with his thumb. His touch is so gentle, shivers run down my spine again.

“What made you change your mind?”

“Your song. I had feelings for you, they developed pretty early, but I…wasn’t acknowledging their existence because I never had the chance to fall in love with someone.”

I jump on Kris to hug him, sending us both falling to the ground, so I end up on top of him. I burst out laughing.

“Well, now you have someone right here.”

My tail appears behind me and shakes in the air, showing my happiness. I kiss him on the cheek, then giggle when I see him blushing. A couple of tears run down my face, but this time they are out of pure and simple joy.

* * *

I've been a demon my whole life. I grew up fearing angels, but nothing could have prepared me for what fate had planned for me. I fell in love with Kris, an angel, a seraph. Our relationship began with the worst scenario possible, with him trying to kill me. And yeah, I might be dumb, because I fell in love with him in that moment, but now we are happy together. And I wouldn’t change a thing about us.

Heaven and Hell finally united thanks to the love between an angel and a demon.

[marinaiguess]

some thoughts evoked by the poll thingy with blaze being in the finals. It’s not about the polls, I do know these are for funsies and stuff, the thought occured to me though because of it. 

I think blaze is a very mistreated and underrated character. 

Wow, okay, that was loaded. Still stands though. I guess I have none other than SEGA to blame, but either way, I do wanna analyze her journey in the franchise and also share my thoughts along the way. 

Blaze the cat had a great kick-off at the beginning of her career. What better way to introduce her than have her as a playable character alongside the main character in an exclusive game for the massively popular at the time, Nintendo DS. Sonic Rush sold more than a million copies and even though it was a pretty great game, it did more than that: it took care of Blaze. It established her character, her background, her story, it gave her an entire character development arc. What was there not to love about her? Sonic’s rival at first, a girl who could keep up with him in terms of speed and power, a princess from another dimension who could also control fire, having her own set of emeralds of which she was the guardian and even her own super form. So many things to consider. All those things were what made her super likeable back in 2005. Fans were actually obsessed with her. And they needed more. So, SEGA had to do something about it.

Here comes Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), changing quite a few things that we already knew about our favorite blue speedster. Possibly changing the entire franchise irredeemably. You already know where I’m going with this. We’re introduced to a new character, Silver the Hedgehog. Everyone is excited to play through his story and, right off the bat, we meet his company: Blaze. Everyone is cheering beacuse Blaze! She’s here, in a 3D game! Soooo, Silver is a character from Blaze’s dimension? Wrong. They’re from the future. Maybe Blaze’s dimension is from the future? Wrong. Blaze and Sonic don’t even acknowledge each other when they eventually meet, acting like they’ve never met before, like Sonic Rush never happened. Okay, fine, it can’t get worse than that, right? Wrong. 

Blaze, for the entirety of the game is treated like a cosmetic, acting solely as Silver’s sidekick, or even as his mentor if you will, and nothing more. We rarely see through her and her thoughts and we’re given little to no means to understand her character. For some people, Blaze was a newly introduced character, since not everyone knew her existence from a year prior. What they get is not the powerful princess we met in Rush, the one who understood the power of friendship and used it in her favour despite her bad past. No, what they got in 06 was a side character, merely existing to give Silver advice and suggestions for his own journey, which she follows no matter what path he chooses to take, even if she disagrees or is not entirely content with it. 

Her limited screentime used for fan-service purposes ended with a bang. Despite this huge journey of giving Silver a purpose (or helping him fulfill it), Blaze was the one who saved the future by using Chaos Control and sacrificing herself in the process, turning into a sort of Burning Blaze as she ascends to the sky. The only reason I felt bad about it was because I knew who Blaze was supposed to be, Blaze to me was the character introduced in Rush. But, given all the info from this specific game, I wasn’t really attached to this Blaze, I had no reason to. Her story felt too blank in comparison to everyone else’s for me to feel the impact of her death. I can understand Silver’s pain though. 

Which doesn’t matter in the end because the timeline is erased. 

So, does that mean Sonic 06 never happened or that it’s not canon? Nope. Everything happened and everything is back to the way it was. Except that the future is saved. How do we know? Sonic Rivals and Sonic Rush Adventure happened. 

I will stick to the latter for the time being. Sonic Rush received a not so commerrcially successful as its predecessor sequel, picking up from where it left off. Kind of. The game released in 2007, a year after 06, the events of which were never to be brought up again, at least until Generations (2011). So, as you’d assume, Sonic and Blaze act like 06 never happened to them, continuing their story after Rush’s events. This game gave more in-depth character development to Blaze, who strengthens her bonds with old and new friends. It doesn’t really matter though because this game didn’t sell well, meaning not a lot of people bought it. Basically, no one knew that game existed so they were wondering what the hell happened to Blaze. Was she dead? Was she from the future? Was she from a different dimension? Would we ever see her again?

Uncertainty prevailed and after SEGA realized how bad of an idea it was to release 06 at its terrible state, they decided it would be best to pretend like it never happened. Iizuka (if I’m not mistaken) when asked in an interview, said that the reason Sonic and Blaze didn’t recognize each other in 06 was “amnesia”. Which doesn’t answer anything and I believe an official answer right now would differ a lot from that. Blaze went on to be a playable character in a few racing games, she got a few cameos. 2009, she appears in Sonic and the Black Knight as Sir Percival. Once again, it doesn’t change anything because, this is a storybook game and doesn’t take place in the in-game universe (this is the arthurian kingdom/world/universe).

Many fans theorized that 06 happened before Rush, making Blaze die in 06 and being transeferred to a new dimension while she had used Chaos Control, forgetting about the past, hence why she didn’t know Sonic in Rush. This was further supported by the fact that Blaze and Silver didn’t recognize each other in Sonic Colors DS (2010), meaning they had forgotten each other. Blaze forgot about 06 and traveled to a different dimension and Silver was affected by the timeline erasure. Sounds pretty solid, right?

Sonic Generations (2011). Blaze is there because she is still relevant and a beloved character to the franchise. No one knows how she got there and no one explains it but no one cares, she’s there to celebrate Sonic’s birthday, the Sonic she knows through the Rush games. But stuff happens and she gets trapped, alongside many of Sonic’s friends, into this ‘white limbo’. Sonic saves her...from Crisis City. Which is a stage from the future of Sonic 06. You may think “okay, maybe SEGA just wanted to pay tribute to 06 as well.” and that would be fine, if it weren’t for Blaze stating that she “never thought she’d be here again.” She remembers 06. Theory debunked. This is never mentioned again, in any game ever. It is still canon however. 

After that, she appeared in Team Sonic Racing (2019), taking 8 years to appear in a game again...despite it being a spin-off. Nothing happens there really, she’s just there to talk to Silver and Amy who she races against for some reason. 

She does appear in IDW, and we now know that the comics are canon to the game timeline. And, I gotta say, I like her there. She hasn’t appeared many times but the writers made those times count. (I think it was Ian who wrote her all of those times, so yeah). 

To put it simply, Blaze is a lost opportunity. Talk about having a rough transition into 3D (hehe). SEGA could have used her in many ways and I think they were intending to, they were preparing her for something big. But they didn’t handle her as they were supposed to and this leads to where we are, where Blaze only appears in spin-offs and the comics, as if they are afraid to bring her back in mainline games. They could really capitalize on her character, if used correctly. They could use her as a playable character that uses the boost formula, as a character that has a super form. They could use her world to introduce new level designs, avoiding using Green Hill over and over again, right? 

I don’t wanna see her standing on the sidelines, doing nothing. I don’t want her purpose to be mentoring Silver. I don’t want her legacy to be Sonic 06. I don’t her to appear only in dire situations (even though, now that I think about it, she didn’t even appear in Forces despite there being a literal war in Sonic’s world). I don’t want her character development to be forgotten and erased. She was a girl with a unique personality that now feels empty, as if she hides behind the face of being a princess from another dimension and nothing more, barely being Sonic’s or Cream’s friend. Mainly focused on the games right now. 

It is said that Blaze is one of the fan-favourite characters of the franchise. But I don’t know if that’s correct. Because I’m not sure if people are a fan of who she is now, of who she is in their minds, or of who she is supposed to be, best depicted in the Rush games. Personally, I believe Blaze still has a lot of uncovered potential that they could take advantage of, so that they can show to everyone who Blaze is supposed to be. Strong and independant, her own character, her own hero.

Hopefully, we get to see more of that in the future. She definitely deserves it. 

[critical-thinking-is-mandatory]

I find it so funny when stans say that Adrien and other rich kids in the show are "groundbreaking representation" or something because they're not. It's an overused trope that makes all of us appreciate how damn broke we all are because at least "we don't suffer like rich people do". What I mean is, you have Adrien, who's born super mega rich, but is trapped in this golden cage and isn't allowed to be himself. There's a clear link to his suffering and his status as a rich model. He also has an "emotional support poor", Marinette, who is "the only one who understands his pain" and is also "the only one who can ground him". Because unlike rich people, poor people don't have trouble with complicated relationships to their families. And this is very striking in miraculous, every poor person has a good relationship with their family (the biggest family issue was maybe the Luka/Jagged thing but even that got resolved immediately) while the rich kids all suffer abuse. And they do nothing about it not because the writers want to showcase how hard it can be for abuse victims but because they think that's the job of the poor friends they have, mainly Marinette. She is supposed to fix Adrien's family problems for him accordung to the bible, she was Kagami's first friend and had to talk to her mom to let her compete in the friendship game and she even tried to help Chloe's family situation! ... Sorry this got so long, it was just a thought I had and I felt like sharing.

Anon, you're literally so right.

Like, how many characters exist that are just like "privileged child of terrible parent feat. optional heroism or redemption"? I can think of at least 4 in Avatar: tla ALONE. (All of which were done miles and miles better than Adrien.)

Virtually every show, movie or book you point a stick at will have somebody from a privileged background with shitty parents/guardians do something that sets them apart from their background. Virtually every princess archetype is "wah, my parent is so mean by making me get married for the good of the kingdom (my only job). Being rich is terrible."

Like GIRL. "Rich character with sad background" is so overdone!

And Miraculous has got not one, not two, but at least 4 characters who are rich with sad backstories :((( Adrien, Felix, Kagami and Chloe. This isn't even including Lila, Prince Ali, Gabriel or Zoe. And, objectively, none of these characters have any compelling storyline. Kagami I have a soft spot for but objectively, she is also on this list.

None of them are compelling 'richy rich with sob story' characters. Sure, we can pity them, but they're not *compelling*. We're not inspired or moved or awed by them. None of them are original or interesting or unique.

But you're right, anon. They feel like a slap in the face. It's like, its almost like the creators are romanticising the working class. "Oh being rich is so hard, I wish I was like the normal people who work every single day and are so happy because money can't buy happiness."

it's really, really tone deaf, and honestly? Annoying. Like, at least if you're gonna make a rich kid with a sob story at least make them unique or compelling, like Batman or Zuko or Toph.

[kidflashimpulse]

You’ve kind of already answered this in AAIT but I’m high off of no sleep and figured it couldn’t hurt to ask anyways <33

Do you think Bart would every tell Ed, Jay, or Jaime (or anyone else) about anything regarding his past? Alternatively, do you think any of his loved ones would infer certain thoughts based on his actions, scars, etc? Super curious as to what you think (dissecting all Bart thoughts on your brain fr)

this is one of those things that varies depending on what type of plots or seasons of YJ i’m thinking about. All in all, i do think Jaime could know the most primarily because of his (or rather Blue Beetles) involvement in Barts time. I just feel like generally, it would start because he’d just want to know exactly what type of atrocities blue beetle is capable of and also out of some type of (albeit unecessary but he’s a little sensitive like that) self sacrificial/hating form of repenting, but of course with the passage of time when he becomes genuine good friends with bart he also just wants to know out of concern for his friend. And because he probably already knows the most to begin with, and is possibly bart’s first closest friend, it just makes it easier for bart to divulge the extra details if he’s either in the right mood or prompted in some way. Because Jaime already has a grasp on the major things, it would be very easy for Bart to just build on what he already knows. Theres a lot of potential for complexities to be considered in this, like mixed feelings of jaimes guilt / bart possibly having some innate sense of hate at the very early stages of talking about it and having no problem making jaime feel bad / bart starting to completely genuinely like jaime (if he didn’t from the get go) and then feeling guilty about his friend needing to share the burden. Just a lot to consider in what it means for Bart to share about his past with him. In terms of to what extent and how much bart shares with him, well that can be up to debate, but i do feel like Jaime can possibly have the best idea of it among bart’s family/friends circle.

With Ed I feel like it would be very unnatural for him to know as many details as Jaime for the first few years, i just don’t see bart divulging such details without making Ed into a “therapist friend” type of character, which i don’t see him being, because it’s not a nice type of friendship to have, and i don’t see Bart jumping into that type of friendship either. Doesn’t mean Ed isn’t incredibly sympathetic nor a good friend to talk to about these things, nor that he doesn’t use his background to prompt these types of talks. It just means that throughout the course of their friendship, whilst he probably has gotten more details than most people, you know as a result of actually getting to know someone especially if ur interested in them, doesn’t mean that Bart is prompted to share as much about the gory details of major things of his past. I imagine that throughout the possible collection of tender moments they might have shared between eachother, he has probably gotten the jist in a summary type of sense. Maybe as they start dating, he’s more motivated to be a bit more upfront on things out of curiosity and attributing certain traits that can be explained by understanding someone better, and bart would also feel more comfortable to just naturally talk about things too.

in terms of family, I feel like because Jay and Joan spent the most time with him due to living together, they might have inferred quite a bit of things, but not early enough that would be expected of them being u know, his guardians. I kind of go into this in the next chapter of AAIT (which takes on a very different pace/setting compared to the previous chapters)

Barry is kind of hopeless, if he knows anything it’s either through others or by some stroke of luck lmfao

Iris probably infers quite a bit herself and probably has some good talks with Bart

Generally i don’t think it’s something Bart is intentionally hiding for the sake of keeping it a secret, he just doesn’t have any crazy incentive to divulge these things in the first place. i think the most natural thing is for him to just drop things here and there and if anyones paying attention or can put the 2 and 2 together, they can infer quite a few things about him. Because like i said he’s not explicitly hiding it, he’s just kind of counter intuitively low-key like that . something that also helps him with this alot is the fact that he’s a time traveler in the first place. alot of things can be handwaved away by ppl with the fact that has “not from here” rather than because “he’s from that specific timeline” of that makes any sense.

sorry for the essay lol, i don’t have the clearest of answers to this because it’s something that can develop with certain plots, but these r my overall thoughts i guess :)

thanks for the question <33 and thank u for reading AAIT <333

[nopoodles]

Prompt: Lost

OCs: Merry + Kalik From: Guardian Cadet Series Spoilers: Mild (They’re in a relationship here, which doesn’t happen until the end of the first book, but I’ve told you now so)

Title: A Misunderstood Performance

“Okay,” I hissed into Kalik’s ear. “I’m lost. What’s happening now?”

The way his cheek moved under my mouth told me he was smiling that specific smile that meant he was about to tell me I’d opened his world up… again. He leaned over, pressing his own mouth to my ear. “Haven’t you heard this story before?”

“No.”

“It’s a tragic romance. Their families are feuding but they fall in love anyway.”

“I got that part. It’s where we are now that I’m struggling.”

“I’ll tell you at the interval.”

I didn’t ask him what an interval was. No need to open that particular jar of magic. The idea of going on a date to see a show had been appealing when I had thought it would be more like Lior’s shows at Jhoto's – not specifically that after her decree that I was no longer welcome in the bar but something akin to it. A show that happened for people to dip in and out of, the purpose to put some background to the outing, to fill any silence that might otherwise become uncomfortable.

This, however, was an entirely different beast. Rows of seats lined one behind each other, too close for my personal comfort levels and with an uncomfortable arm rest between me and the only person in the entire building I wouldn’t have minded sharing space with. And we had to be quiet and watch the story play out in front of us, with melodramatic and archaic human language. Maybe it if had been in ancient Elven I might have stood a better chance.

Thankfully it wasn’t too long before the performers disappeared into the wings and the lights came up in the seating area. I lurched to my feet, desperate to move, even if it wasn’t the end yet.

“Let’s get some air,” Kalik suggested, taking my hand and leading me past the other audience members with some difficulty. Seriously, who put these seats so close together? I’d waited tables and it was easier than this.

The night air was pleasantly cool. I leaned against the rough sandstone of the building and let out a soft groan. “Okay, explain it to me.”

“You’re not having fun,” Kalik said instead.

“What?”

“I thought you would like it. I thought it would be an accessible story for you. Like your Tale Of The Moon Prince but… We don’t have to go back in.”

The offer would have been tempting but the way Kalik’s shoulders had dropped told all too well that not subjecting myself to another hour or more of confusing melodrama would seem like a rejection. Would hurt him. And I didn’t want to hurt Kalik. “Just try explaining it to me again,” I insisted.

“It’s an old Human story. These two kids meet and fall in love but their families won’t let them be together.”

I nodded. Again, I understood that part. But now we’d reached a different stage of it where all the different characters with unfamiliar names were running around with apparent purpose that I couldn’t understand.

“They’re both supposed to be engaged to someone else and they want to leave their fiance’s to be together. We just watched them sneak away to get married without telling anyone.”

I frowned. Didn’t seem like legitimate marriage as far as I understood it but this was an old Human story so maybe their rules were different.

“But I brought you because I thought, since reading isn’t your favourite but you like stories, and you used to work at Jhoto's, that a play might… I should have picked a musical.”

“Musical?”

“Music and play all in one. The characters sing when their emotions get too much to bear.”

“That does sound more… But the tiny chairs, Kalik!”

“What?”

“The chairs, they’re tiny. And people keep giving me looks.”

“Because you came in normal day clothes.”

I looked down at my baggy hooded overtop and trousers. “What’s wrong with my clothes?”

“People tend to dress nicely for dates.”

My head jerked to take in his outfit. Now that he mentioned it, he wasn’t in Uniform either. He wasn’t even in one of his might-as-well-be-Uniform outfits of white shirt and black trousers. Instead Kalik had donned a purple buttoned shirt. He’d even plaited his hair off his forehead.

“I didn’t know,” I whispered.

He smiled that soft smile. The one that carried just a little guilt. “I should have said.”

“I should have asked someone. I told Kitty I was going on a date and he didn’t say anything!”

“Merry, do you even own other clothes?”

“I… don’t.” I’d never seen the need to expand my wardrobe past what was appropriate for work at Jhoto's – where the rule had been ‘wear black’ and then my Guardian Uniforms. I rubbed my face. “I feel like I’m making a mess of this already.”

“You’re just unique.”

I levelled a soft glare at him. “That has never proved a positive trait so far.”

“Well, I like you anyway.”

“For now.”

“Hey.” He brushed soft fingers across my cheek, encouraging but not forcing me to look at him. “Not just for now.”

I pressed my lips to his. “Tell me what’s going to happen in the next bit and we can go back in. If I know the story I’ll follow it easier.”

“I’m not a great storyteller.”

“Can’t be worse than me.”

He laughed. “That’s true.”

This has been A Misunderstood Performance by Will Soulsby-McCreath. Feel absolutely free to reblog around Tumblr but don't copy and paste to anywhere else (c) Will Soulsby-McCreath

[ririchanva]

Chapter Sixteen: Travelling to New York~! (Part Two)

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Chapter Warning: Violence, mentions of drug use, mentions of torture and abuse, almost character deaths. 

A/n: Key notes about this chapter:

There has been some changes in previous chapters. Please go back and read from Chapter Six and onwards to understand more of the changes made. This includes possibly of Marinette’s family.

Spoilers possibly for just MHA manga and Miraculous s5, since writer has already caught up with EVERYTHING.

Not heavily World Heroes Mission based. Will just have more background on Rody and that’s pretty much it.

Considering at this point that Class 1-A are on Nabu Island, the villains Nine and his group won’t be there. Meaning they’re just gonna have a fun yet boring time with no danger. Meaning that Katsuma and Mahoro Shimano wouldn’t have met with any of them. But maybe in the future?

Humarise are not gonna be present but they shall be mentioned.

Introducing of not just the Ghost Force, but Pixie Girl and The Sorcerer as well.

The Native American Miracle Box will be revealed along with the Guardian.

This chapter is pretty long. Considering this story hasn’t been updated for a LONG good year or two...and the fact it was supposed to be a two-parter...yeah, you’re gonna have a day or so to finish this chapter.

That’s pretty much it. Other than that, grab your snacks and buckle up~ We’re gonna have a wild ride this chapter~

    Sparrow informed them that their ride arrived and to everyone’s surprise, it was some sort of party bus. The Parisian and Japanese teens were all amazed…well, some were.

   “As much as I’m excited to go to a dinner with famous heroes, I-I feel guilty that we left Chloe behind.” Sabrina said in worry, looking out the window to see the sight of the New York buildings and signs, her eyes sullen.

   “I know. But I’m sure she’ll be up and better tomorrow for the tour of the city. Apparently one of the United Heroez will be showing us around,” Nino piped up, peeking over the red head with a grin, “I really wanna meet Rock Lock!”

    “Isn’t he in Japan now?” A hum came from Kagami, tilting her head.

    “Oh yeah...” Nino scratched his head, before snapping his fingers with a grin, “What about Captain Celebrity?”

  “Ew, why him?” Nathaniel huffed while rolling his eyes, “I’d rather have Dean Gate. He’d actually give us a good tour with interesting, historical facts and fun trivia!”

   With everyone talking about what to expect on this trip, Adrien noticed how Marinette was pretty quiet. It concerned him, so he ended up scooting next to her.

   “Everything okay, Bug?”

   “Just…I’m worried about Rody. He seemed off since coming here. I wonder if it’s because we’ve uprooted him from his home and family.” She looked to her partner, “I feel guilty about it. Kinda makes me think even more how I keep dragging everyone into this mess when they could be living normal lives and without danger on their backs.”

  “They knew what they were signing up for, Marinette. That’s the risk they were willing to take. It’s the same for me,” Adrien assured her, taking her hand with a gentle smile, “I’m your partner. I’ll always have your back. Just as the team who are also our friends have our backs.”

  Marinette smiled, nodding her head while squeezing his hand in return, “Thanks, Adrien. I needed to hear that.”

  “We’ve arrive~” Amelie spoke up from the front of the bus, smiling.

   Everyone peeked out the window, eyes widening at seeing what seemed to be a familiar large building that had the words Atrium of Equity  over it.

  “Are…are we really going in there?” Marc asked with awe, green eyes filled with wonderment.

   “Looks like it. I’m so hyped!” Nino cheered in excitement, “Never tried fancy food before, especially foreign food! I bet it’s gonna be delicious! AND we get to see the inside of the Headquarters of the United Heroez?! DOUBLE BONUS!”

   “Considering we’re meeting other heroes, it’s best that you all should be in your hero attire.” Uncanny Valley spoke up politely, although everyone froze in place at being told this.

   “As in…using our Miraculous?” Adrien asked.

   “It’s gonna be weird that myself, Tsukuyomi and Uncanny are out and about with civilian looking people going into our HQ, you know?” Sparrow explained with a shrug, “Even if it is a private dinner, there are reporters and rabid fans that tend to sneak around, trying to get a glimpse of us and get some intel to sell to the media. Don’t want you exposed in case you do the whole secret identity thing.”

  “Sparrow has a point,” Izuku agreed calmly while adding, “And we don’t want to draw attention since some of us have recognizable faces. Such as Shoto-kun and Kacchan…”

   "Or Adrien, Kagami, Chloe and Felix.” Nino finally understood, looking sort of worried now.

   “Not all of us have a Miraculous in hand.” Felix pointed out, while Marinette sighed.

   “This is a dilemma…”

   “Maybe not.” Aizawa spoke up, holding the Horse Miraculous in sight, “I could go back and ask Fu for the box and you can distribute who gets what. That way, everyone won’t be revealed of their true identities.”

   Izuku leaned over Marinette for a moment, whispering something into her ear as the girl looked at him strangely, as if asking he was sure what he’s asking of her. Smiling, Izuku just nods his head, which made Marinette sigh, looking like she conceded to whatever he requested.

    ….Which made Shinso uneasy.

  “So, I suppose we should figure out who has what Miraculous. Including the upcoming Guardians,” Marinette looked to Kirishima, Momo, Bakugo, Adrien and Izuku with a smile, “We are Guardians, after all.”

    “That’s a quick change of your mind. Any particular reason?” Fei asked, tilting her head before Marinette smiled weakly.

     “Master Fu is right. Me and Adrien aren’t alone in this anymore. And considering we are the New Guardians soon, it’s best if we are prepared for anything.”

    “That…sounds like a good idea,” The Chinese girl nodded, smiling and patting her shoulder, “You’re growing to become a good leader, Sister Marinette.”

   “But just in case, perhaps it would be best just for tonight you go as some other Miraculous Hero,” Izuku piped up with a smile, “We don’t want rumours spreading about Ladybug and Chat Noir being here and not in Paris.”

   “As much as I hate to part with Tikki, if it’s only for tonight…” Marinette hummed, looking at her Miraculous.

    Adrien hummed, nodding, “Agreed. I just got Plagg back too...”

    “But we have to be lowkey right now,” The pigtailed girl looked to Izuku then nodded, “Alright, let’s do that.”

   Aizawa, transforming into Mustang, created his voyage and peeked into the portal. Everyone could hear him talking to Fu on the other side, jumping in while Izuku somehow jumped in afterwards. This confused the teens for a moment…except for Bakugo.

    The blond was even more suspicious about his childhood friend and what he was up to, but didn’t speak up. He’ll have his chance sooner or later.

    Fei quickly raised her hand up all of a sudden, making Marinette and Adrien look at her strangely.

    “E-everything okay?” Adrien asked her, while the girl shook her head.

    “I wish to go back to the hotel and stay with the others that we’re left behind.”

    Izuku popped his head out from the portal for a moment, almost as if he was expecting her to say those words.

    “That’s fine. Here, I’ll help you get back there to join Chloe-san, Shoto-kun and Rody.”

    Offering his hand out, Izuku smiled while ignoring the way Shinso and Marinette were giving him looks. It was fine. It was for him to know and for them to find out eventually.

    Adrien watched as Fei was pulled into the portal, then leaned over to Marinette to whisper to her.

    “What made Fei want to stay back anyways? I thought she would be excited to meet American heroes?” He asked inquisitively, watching his partner’s facial expression.

    “Dunno. But she must have a good reason for it.”

    “Yeah, but…how come Izuku seemed so chill of her going back?”

    “I wish I knew…”

    After a few minutes, Izuku and Aizawa came back through the portal and closed it, showing they had the Miracle Box before handing it over to Marinette.

   “Alright, let’s see…” Marinette hummed, looking through the Miraculous and glanced at her team and friends.

   And so, the distribution of the Miraculous began.

   “Well, didn’t expect this kind of change from you.”

    “Does it look bad?”

    “…On the contrary, my dear kitty cat, it suits you~”

    “Call me that again, and I’m gonna pull your “tail” off, Dragon Breath.”

    Adrien, who was holding the Dragon Miraculous with the Hero Name: Dragon Knight, laughed softly as he looked at a very annoyed Cat Heroine. Marinette opted to switch Miraculous with Adrien considering she lent the Ladybug Miraculous to someone else for the night, and opted the name Lady Noire as her heroine name. Adrien was told by Izuku that he should have the Dragon for the time being, saying that since he was good at fencing, this would be a good temporary Miraculous.

    The blond dragon hero pursed his lips at seeing people looking at them, and had to glare protectively at some eyes wandering over to Lady Noire while walking to the Atrium of Equity. Especially the male kind.

   “Chill out, my scaly friend~ You’re gonna shoot lasers with those eyes. Or breathe fire, whichever comes first,” Nino, now donning his Peacock counterpart as Feathertop, patted at Dragon Knight’s shoulder while walking side by side each other.

   “I do have to ask…how come you didn’t want to wear a Miraculous yourself?” Dragon Knight turned to Izuku, raising a brow.

    “It’s because I’m already well known of being someone that is mentored under All Might. So it’s not that odd that I come as Deku rather than a Miraculous Hero.” Izuku explained, shrugging his shoulder, “The one’s that need to be hidden are naturally Kacchan, Eijiro-kun, and Momo-chan~”

 “Swapping Miraculous is really fun! It’s kinda like a costume party, don’t you guys think so?” Rose, now dressed as the Bunny Heroine: Bonnie Blanche, chirped sweetly while hugging Shinso’s arm happily.

  Juleka, dressed as the Mouse Heroine: Whisketeer, just gave a small smile in agreement. She was unsure when Rose told her to have the Mullo for now, but she couldn’t argue when Rose gave her that trusting smile.

   “Weird you’re not wearing a Miraculous, Hitoshi.” Feathertop pointed out, while the Brainwashing quirk user shrugged.

    “Aizawa pretty much wanted me to appear as his protege tonight. So I had no choice in the matter. But I’m more concerned that Midoriya doesn’t have use of a Miraculous tonight.”

    “Why?” Cape Crusader asked.

    “I thought he’d want to ask me to borrow Fluff. Surprisingly he didn’t.”

    Izuku smiled innocently as he heard this, while Shinso was glancing down at the blonde girl now adorning the bunny motif of a Miraculous. Honestly, he thought that Izuku would’ve been reckless and give the bunny miraculous to Alix. However, Alix ended up with the Fox Miraculous of all things, donning the hero name: Trickster Tails while Rose had Fluff instead. 

    Shinso had a look of dread at the thought that Rose now held the very Miraculous he came here with. The pit of his stomach grew heavy at the thought of the outcome of their futures now, what was Midoriya thinking—

     The brainwasher snapped out of it when a certain green haired hero nudged him.

   “Loosen up a bit, will you? You’re making face as if I have some ulterior motive of some kind~” Izuku giggled, but yelped when he felt a smack to the back of his head.

   “Idiot. Don’t draw so much attention.” Bakugo, dressed in the Ladybug attire with the hero name: Boom Beetle, said sternly, making his childhood friend pout.

    “Why in the world do you have the Ladybug Miraculous?” Dragon Knight asked curiously, while Boom Beetle shrugged.

    “Beats me. All I know is that the Nerd told me and Spots to swap Miraculous for the night.”

    “Aaaaand the reason that we’re missing the Tiger and Bee Miraculous?”

   “I asked permission from Lady Noire if Chloe could have the Tiger for tonight and provided Shoto-kun the Bee Miraculous,” Izuku said easily, making Hitoshi glare at him which made the green haired hero laugh, “Don’t look at me like that! Trust me, it’s necessary~”

   “Either way, let’s not make any sort of scene tonight, okay?” Lady Noire said quietly to them, giving a look especially to Izuku.

   “Agreed. We are here to meet the heroes and observe. If we act like fools in front of them…” Kagami, now the Rooster Heroine: Onagadori, piped up with a stern stare until she felt the hand onto hers.

   Kirishima, now adorned in the Turtle Miraculous with the hero name: Rockershella, just smiled at her, “Take it easy, this is just the first night. I know we have to make a good impression~”

    Onagadori just gave a look, “I know how excitable you can get.”

   “Give me a little credit, Dori-chan~” Rockershella chuckled, “I’ll behave.”

   “But I won’t~” Trickster Tails cheekily said as she stood by Nathaniel, who managed to get the Ox Miraculous and going with his hero name: Cobalt Bull

   “Al—I-I mean, Trickster Tails, please behave.” Marc, who got the Horse Miraculous from Aizawa and named himself the hero: Star Stallion, said quietly as he felt eyes on him and making him even more nervous.

   “Yeah, we shouldn’t make it so known that we’re sort of new with our Miraculous right now,” Cobalt Bull murmured, his ox like tail swishing a bit.

   Izuku hummed while hopping back for a moment, walking side by side next to a Dog Heroine, giving a cheeky grin.

    “So~? Didn’t I tell ya you’d have a Miraculous in the right moment~?”

   Lupina, the new Dog Heroine, raised a brow, “Sure…but why did my name have to be close to my old Fox persona?”

   “Irony?”

   “…You’re having fun with this, aren’t you?”

    “Maybe~?”

   Lupina huffed, almost trying to stomp her foot onto the male’s, but Izuku chuckled and avoided her hit.

   Ubayagi, a heroine with the Goat Miraculous used by Momo, looked anxious.

   “I-I do not know if I should be wearing such a Miraculous on me,” She would state quietly, eyes darting around in worry.

   “I think it suits you. Although I will have to admit, this is a very rockin’ style for me.” A chuckle came from Luka, who had the Monkey Miraculous and named himself: Howler.

     Bonnie Blanche noticed that the new Pig Heroine looked nervous, and smiled softly, “Sab—er, Glitter Gilt? You doing okay?”

    Glitter Gilt looked up at the Rabbit Heroine and nodded slowly, “I’m fine. Just worried about Chloe again…”

    “Chloe will be fine. She has Shoto, Fei and Rody with her. She should be safe in that hotel with them, especially when the three of them have a Miraculous each.” Felix, having the Snake Miraculous and went with the hero name: Neim, assured the girls while walking side by side with Cobalt Bull, “But if you would like to call them up to check on her?”

  “I can do that later. B-But gosh, we have nothing like this in Paris.” Glitter Gilt murmured, while Feathertop agreed.

   “Totally. Yo, LN, why don’t we ever have our own brand of an HQ sometime huh?” The Peacock Hero grinned, while the Cat Heroine rolled her eyes.

   “Sure. I’ll be sure to ask the Mayor to build us a HQ for the whole world to see and let the bad guys come knocking on our door~” She said sarcastically, making Boom Beetle snort.

   “Yeah, why do the United Heroez basically place their base to the public? Isn’t the point to hide from the enemies?” Cobalt Bull asked out loud, “Why make it easy access for anyone?”

  “It’s in order to create a better public image to the people. If we are easy to locate for people in need to find us and assist them, the better.” Uncanny Valley chirped immediately, “Originally, the Homebase used to be inside a sleeping volcano. But, due to one of our enemies finding it, All Might suggested to just create the Atrium of Equity to show we do not fear evil and make it a Symbol of Hope for all.”

   “All Might did?” Dragon Knight asked curiously, looking at the thinly man, “Isn’t that dangerous?”

    “Not at all. Especially when we’ve got the best of the best protecting this place,”

    All the young heroes looked towards All Might, who approached them with a smile.

     “You might not know this, but my dearest best friend was the very person that started up this place and has had people improve on the Atrium of Equity for years to keep it secure and protected,” He explained, and smiled when he caught eyes with Izuku, “And now his daughter is one of the people that took over that job. She’s actually my unofficial niece and god daughter, who’s also here to join us for dinner.”

   The current One-For-All user paused, almost going rigid at the implication.

   “…She’s here?”

    Everyone else paused, looking at the now nervous Izuku and Lupina staring at him in suspicion.

   “Uncle Might!”

   Boom Beetle started grinning with a chuckle, “Oh, here it comes.”

   Lady Noire raised a brow at the spotted hero. However, she blinked in surprise when a pretty blonde girl with blue eyes behind her glasses walked over towards them excitedly. She jumped to hug the frail looking All Might happily before looking at the teen heroes with a big smile.

   “Oh my goodness! Are these the new heroes you were telling me about? It’s nice to meet you all!” She seemed to be looking around for someone before looking back at All Might, “Uncle Might? I thought Deku would be with you?”

   Lupina’s face contorted into annoyance as she snapped her head to Izuku, who was now hiding behind both Dragon Knight and Lady Noire.

   Toshinori chuckled, “Um, yes? Well actually he’s—”

   Izuku pinched the feline like heroine, who yelped and looked back to him. The green haired boy giving a “please help me!” look, begging for her to step in.

     Coughing for attention on herself, she then spoke loudly to All Might and the new girl before the former Number One Hero could say anymore.

     “HE, er, w-went to the toilet! Yeah, he ate something bad this morning~” The female feline laughed loudly, while Izuku was quick to hide himself now behind Shinso, Bonnie Blanche and Whisketeer.

     All Might raised a brow, looking concerned.

      The bunny dressed heroine looked to Boom Beetle with questioning eyes.

     “So she knows Deku, huh?” She asked, making the spotted hero nodded.

    “Yup~ Somehow Deku managed to charm her without knowing and has been calling for him ever since. It has been, hm, maybe almost a year?” The boy in red and black explained, then chuckled in amusement, “Kinda surprised that the nerd never noticed her gooey eyes on him every time.”

   Lupina, on the other hand, was feeling a burning sensation in her stomach. She was almost tempted to throw her ball at the girl’s head talking with All Might about “the boy that saved her and her Daddy” with giggles and perfect smiles.

     Onagadori had to chuckled under her breath, “This is going to be amusing.”

   The Turtle Hero beside her sighed, knowing this night might be either a huge success…or a huge disaster.

    Rody blinked slowly as he looked at the spread before him, then looked back at the three sitting on the bed with plates on their laps.

   ‘Damn, rich kids.’

    Fei recognized the look, although kept quiet since she was used to it, thanks to her Baba being pretty wealthy himself.

   “You…don’t hold back on room service, huh?” Rody breathed out, Pino already diving into the bowl of grapes happily while flapping her wings, showing her hungry excitement.

   Somehow this amused both Pollen, Roaar and the hidden Renlings.

   Todoroki tilted his head, “Well, Chloe-san did want to have enough to eat while you tell us your story.”

    “My Queen is always so thoughtful~” Pollen sounded while nuzzled into Todoroki’s red and white hair, watching all of them in fascination.

    Fei chuckled, looking secretly at her zodiac animal friends, sort of pitying that only she can see them.

   “Either way, the story will either be entertaining or majorly boring. But yeah, dinner and a show~” Chloe clapped her hands together before grabbing for some sushi, Roaar resting on her lap, “So start~”

   “Where to begin…” Rody scratched his head, thinking for a moment.

   “You could try some of these?” Todoroki offered a plate of crackers with caviar, cheese, salmon and other assorted things on them.

   Rody stared for a moment, “…That looks fancy expensive.”

   “Shoto-baby, I was talking about Rodykin’s story,” Chloe sighed before Todoroki shrugged and took a cracker.

   ‘Are those gold flecks on the salmon cracker?!’ Rody thought wildly, but then coughed and kept his focus.

    Fei watched him for a moment, then smiled softly, “Take your time. There is no rush.”

     She had to give a pointed look to a pouting Chloe for a moment.

      Rody felt assured at the Chinese girl’s words, and soon found himself starting his story.

     “Okay okay…um, I guess this all started four years ago…I was starting secondary school and my Dad still lived with us. My mom died when my sister, Lala, was born. So it was only us four that lived together in the childhood town my mother grew up in.”

    “Ugh, skip the fru fru nostalgia and get to the good part.” Chloe tutted, waving her chopstick at him before Rody raised a brow.

    “I was getting to it,” He stuck his tongue out, grabbing a pizza slice close by and chuckled when Chloe gagged at the sight of his food, “Anyways, when I was starting on my first day of school, we were told we’d be getting a new student…”

    “Everyone, this is Zoe Lee. Her dad is here for a year for business and she shall be with us until then~ Please give her a warm welcome and be sure to make friends with her, alright?”

    “At the time, I didn’t know about her being a daughter of a superhero. Mr. Plastic was assigned to be a temporary hero to watch Otheon and it’s crime level, considering the government decided to try and open it’s doors to heroes…” Rody murmured, coming out from his memories with a thoughtful gaze, “Which, to be fair, made a lot of the locals worried. The Otheon politics at the time were known to be…very shady. So talks of integrating into Hero Society was scary. Especially when people with quirks started to come out into the open and wished to join the cause.”

    “Do you have a quirk?” Fei asked curiously.

    “Yes, I do now. But at the time, my quirk didn’t manifest yet. I thought I’d be quirkless like my parents. But I’ll get to that part in a minute.”

    Rody took a breath, picking at his pepperoni on his pizza before he continued.

   “Anyways, when I first met Zoe, she was a little shy…”

   Twelve year old Rody raised a brow, looking at the girl fiddling with her hands as she quietly introduced herself in front of the class, eyes down and stuttering in her sentences. It made him feel sorry that she was the new kid and looked as scared as a rabbit.

    “And so, I reached out my hand first.”

    “Hey, I’m Rody. Nice to meet you!”

    “Z-zoe…”

    Rody closed his eyes for a moment, having a faint smile.

    “We became close since that day. She talked about her life in New York, the amazing stories she created…I knew they were made up, but I just brushed them off as trying to make friends with tall tales. I never thought of it malicious or anything.”

   Chloe huffed, “A liar, huh?”

    Rody opened his eyes as the light in them dimmed.

    “Yeah. We were kids. Kids tended to make fantastical stories just to make friends. Over-exaggerate on things, you know? And while some were unbelievable like how she said she and All Might were like family, or that she has pretty much has meet a lot of famous people while also travelling around the world, I believed her. Because she smiled so happily and made friends because of her stories. We were best friends, we did everything together despite her going over the top with her tales.”

   Todoroki, Fei and Chloe saw the way he paused, looking almost…wistful.

    “But there was one truth she told. She confessed about being Mr. Plastic’s daughter.”

     The young Rody’s eyes widened as Zoe told her secret to him, and the blonde looked nervous.

   “Y-You can’t tell anyone, okay?” She said in a quiet whisper, and Rody made a zipping motion with his lips while making another motion as if throwing away the key.

   “I won’t! Pinky swear! In return, I’ll tell you my secret~”

    “I told her about my quirk. I told her about Pino a-and how my quirk worked, even showing her,” Rody murmured as he felt his bird companion land onto his shoulder, softening, “Our trust and bond grew even more.”

   “Alright, so far, Zoe-san sounds like a good person,” Todoroki said with a hum, feeding Pollen some croissants, “You must’ve cared for her very much to share secrets like that.”

    “Yeah…I can embarrassingly admit that I might’ve had a little crush on her. Start of puberty, ya know? Where boys don’t think girls are icky anymore…” Rody laughed and smiled, “You know, I gifted her a one month friendship present…”

    “Rody! The shoes are a bit big for me!” A young Zoe giggled while Rody looked flustered for a moment, spluttering.

   “S-sorry! Gosh I should’ve asked what size you were! B-But I was so excited for my allowance from Dad a-and I knew you wanted to have these shoes for a long time a-and…I decorated them with your favourite colours—”

   Zoe softened when she took the shoes from Rody, a fond smile on her lips.

   “How about this? I can keep them until they fit me? I can display them in my room like a trophy? A token of our friendship!”

    Rody smiled brightly, but then clicked his fingers, “Here! I’ll even sign it!”

   Rody chuckled as he leaned back against the headboard of the bed.

    Fei thought the story was going to continue being a happy one…until Rody’s smile fell.

   “A few months later, however…was when we got another new student…”

   “Lila is amazing, Rody! She’s been to New York too!“ Zoe cooed, dancing around her friend, who was frowning deeply, “She told me how her Mom always took her to Broadway to see a lot of shows, she even said one day she’ll take me to see the cast of famous plays! Isn’t this awesome???”

    “Unlike Zoe telling her tales, Lila Rossi used her lies for darker intentions,” Rody murmured as he almost crushed the pizza crust he now held in his gloved hand, “Lying with every breath, she used her lies to get out of classes or get people to do things for her. Zoe was the number one person that Lila used in the guise of her “BFF”…which I hated.”

   Chloe gulped, as she looked down in shame, reminded of a similar scenario in her head with Sabrina in the past.

    Todoroki noticed this and tapped her hand gentle for comfort, while both Pollen and Roaar cooed at the girl in reassurance.

     Fei pursed her lips, almost feeling sorry for Rody. But she kept quiet still.

    Rody continued on.

    “I tried to warn her…but she didn’t believe me.”

    Zoe looked at Rody with disbelief, before laughing.

   “Oh Rody! You’re so silly! Is it because you’re jealous of her?”

   Rody looked surprised at her, then offended.

   “No! Look, Z, she’s bad news!”

   “She told me that because I’ve been spending so much time with her, you might’ve felt left out. But don’t worry, Ro, you’re still my first best friend! Now I have two~” Zoe reached over and hugged Rody, who pushed her away and stepped back, “R-Rody?”

  “You’re not listening to me! Zoe, she’s a liar.”

   Zoe frowned, “I don’t get it, Rody? She’s so nice to everyone, why are you being so weird and putting her down like that? If you could only just see—”

   “She almost sounds like Cesaire.” Chloe interrupted for a moment, Rody looking confused.

    “Who’s that?”

    “An unpleasant wannabe. No one you need to worry about,” The blonde responded, gestured for the boy to continue his tale.

   “Right. Anyways, I couldn’t convince her or had proof that Lila was lying about everything she said. The sneaky witch is good at her skills in manipulation and charm, and even did research in case anyone tried to denounce her lies. So…I confronted Lila myself…”

   The Italian girl’s face contorted into tears, hands over her cheeks and hiccuping with big innocent eyes.

   “H-How could you be so mean to me, Rody? A-All I wanted was to be friend with you~ Especially since we both care about Zoe ever so much~”

   “I’m willing to be friends with you, if you just stop lying,” Rody spoke with an annoyed tone, “And stop using Zoe to do your bidding! She’s not your servant!”

   Lila sniffled, pouting and her lower lip wobbling.

  “Oh, Rody! That’s so mean to say~ Of course she’s not my servant, she’s my friend.”

  “No, she’s my friend. And I’m trying to save her from your stupid fake promises that I know you can’t give her,” Rody scolded, wagging his finger at her before Lila’s crying face turned stone cold.

   “…Huh, I suppose you’re smarter than everyone here. Surprising, but not too surprising,” She wiped her eyes and flipped her hair, dropping her act and folded her arms coolly, “So~? You’re not gonna quit, huh?”

   “I’ll expose you, Lila! Just you wait, once everyone knows you lied about everything—“

   “And what~?” Lila stepped forward with a smirk, “If you tell, imagine how heartbroken your dear Zoe will be. Especially when she’s told me a lot of things about you~”

   Rody paled, but stood his ground.

   “I’m not afraid of you, Lila! I’m giving you a warning and a chance to come clean. Otherwise I could just go to the Headmaster right now.”

   Lila backed him up against the wall, giving an evil smile.

   “And I’ll give you a chance to back down before I make your life miserable. I can take away everything you love dearly with a snap of my finger. You’re either with me, or against me, it’s your choice~”

   “She gave me a day to think about her offer, trying to get me to step aside and even join with her. ” Rody shook his head as he came back to reality, looking at the three in front of him, “But of course…I wasn’t about to back down. But that was my mistake.”

    Rody was coming into the Secondary School with a pep in his step, excited to tell Zoe some good news when he noticed the stares given to him. Goosebumps formed on his forearms as he heard the whispers, everyone looking at him as if he was some sort of freak of nature.

  Frowning, he walked into his classroom and saw everyone surrounding a crying Lila, including Zoe. Everyone looked up when Rody entered, glares all around while Zoe looked…disappointed. Maybe even hurt.

   “What’s…going on?” Rody started before Lila started sobbing again, almost flinching as if burnt.

   Zoe spoke up instead, “Rody! How could you hurt Lila?”

   Rody balked as he stepped back for a moment in shock, “W-what?”

   “Yeah! Lila told us what you did, Rody!” One of their other classmates said, some other agreeing, “How you assaulted her even when she tried to extend her friendship to you!”

   Rody frowned, narrowing his eyes, “I never hurt her.”

   Zoe stepped back to show Lila was raising her wrists up, showing bruises like hand marks around them.

   “H-he got so jealous because I’m always hanging around Zoe a-and confronted me to stay away from her. I just…I just wanted to be friends with him too…“ She cried softly, like the good little actress she was.

   And everyone believed her.

  They looked at Rody like some sort of villain. Including Zoe.

    “That day was only the beginning,” Rody murmured, folding his arms once wiping the pizza grease off his fingers, “Everyday, Lila found ways of making me out as the bully, and one by one…all my friends abandoned me. Zoe and I argued everyday about Lila, her taking the witch’s side every time.”

   “Ergh, I can’t believe that Rossi!” Chloe yelled, almost smushing her chocolate cake with her fork and stabbing it, “That could’ve happened to Marinette if me and Sabrina didn’t find out—”

   “Then what happened?” Todoroki cut her off, wanting to know what happened next while Fei calmed Chloe down.

   Rody then chuckled darkly, placing a hand over his face, “And then the worst happened…the day my life went straight to hell…”

   Mr. Plastic stood in front of their classroom, everyone whispering in excitement to see a Pro-Hero standing before them. He looked tall and proud, and honestly Rody was a little starstruck despite being suspicious on why a Pro was present here in their school of all places.

   The teacher stood nervously in the room, while some of Mr. Plastic’s sidekicks were also present with him, glaring eyes looking around the room for a moment…

    ….only to land on Rody.

   “I’m sorry to disturb you children during class hours, but I have gotten intel about a potential ally of villains that my agency and I are tracking down,“ Mr. Plastic started, before his eyes found who he was looking for, “Rody Soul? Could you please come with us?”

    Rody looked appalled, reeling back from his seat.

    “W-what? Why me?”

   Mr. Plastic narrowed his eyes.

   “We’ve got some questions to ask you about your father, Edward Soul.“

    The class erupted into small whispers, Rody feeling eyes of suspicion and distrust. Rody had to snap his eyes to Zoe, who was looking down at her desk and avoiding eye contact with him.

   Looking back to Mr. Plastic, Rody frowned deeply, “W-what about my Dad?”

   “I must insist that you come with us. I do not think you want your classmates to know of your father being a…suspicious character in our radar.” The hero continued on in a bored drawl, although there was a hint of a threat in his voice.

    The whispers continued, and Rody felt his stomach drop.

    “I always was suspicious about the Souls being weird. But villains? That makes sense.”

   “His dad is a crackpot scientist. Probably kidnaps kids for his experiments, ya know? Maybe experiments on his own…”

   “Maybe his dad killed his wife? After all, Rody doesn’t have a mom, isn’t that strange?”

   “My Mommy told me to stay away from the Soul Family. Their last name is even ominous…”

   Rody stopped his story for a moment to take a shaky breath, both Todoroki and Chloe looked worriedly at Rody as if he was going to have some panic attack. Fei even was scooting closer to Rody and placed a hand onto his shoulder for comfort. But the boy assured them he was okay, then continued on with a heartbroken look.

   “I went with Mr. Plastic anyways back to my place. Got interrogated like some criminal and even got strapped for a polygraph. Eventually they tried to call my dad…but he didn’t answer.”

   Tears welled into Rody’s eyes, but he wiped them away quickly.

   “My dad disappeared. Ran off, actually, since he left a note….”

   The twelve year old Rody stared at the small note in his hands, shaking as he turned to a stern looking Mr. Plastic behind him. Rody felt so small under the eyes of the hero, even more so when the man towered over him and gave a glare as if Rody was a villain himself.

   “Since that day, Mr. Plastic kept his eye on me and watched me like a hawk. I-I had to pull Roro and Lala out from school and daycare since the adults were now also starting to dislike us. Spreading rumours about us and isolated us away from the community,” Rody took out his locket, opening it and saw the picture of his family, “Since my dad left us…life for us has been hard…Him running away confirmed in Mr. Plastic’s mind that he was guilty thus making him a criminal on the run. I had to talk to Zoe one last time to fix everything…“

   “You told your Dad that mine was some crackpot working for an occult!?’ Rody yelled at Zoe, who coward away from him in fear, “Zoe! How could you?!”

   “But isn’t it the truth?!” Zoe yelled back, her eyes wide with tears, “I always thought it was weird that your dad was usually gone and always had those suspicious things around the house. When Lila told me her theories about it, it had me thinking…a-and I had to tell my Dad since he’s on a mission in finding that cult and your dad was the lead!”

   Rody shook his head in disbelief, “My dad is an engineer! He loves inventing, you know that! You’ve seen him work and it’s not dangerous!”

    Zoe bit her lower lip, before Rody grabbed her hand.

   “Zoe…what did you tell Lila about my family? Did…did you tell her about you being Mr. Plastic’s daughter?!”

   The blond shrugged helplessly, “S-she wanted to know more about you and me so…I told her about your Dad, a-and how he’d always have some weird things being made…and a lot of other things…plus, she’s my bestie, I can’t keep secrets from here—”

   “Zoe…”

    Rody sighed, squeezing her hand.

   “Please, Z. Tell your dad that you made a mistake and jumped into conclusions! If we just fix this together...”

    Zoe looked fearful for a moment, and Rody thought that maybe he had convinced her that she had messed up and would help him clear the misunderstandings. However, she moved her hand away from and glared with suspicion.

     “How do I know you’re not the one lying to me, huh?”

   Rody’s eyes looked betrayed and shocked, “Z-zoe…”

   “You’ve always had it out for Lila! A-and you’ve changed so much in the past few months, it’s crazy. It makes me think maybe you’ll turn again me next!” Zoe narrowed her eyes and started walking away from Rody, “Stay away from me from now on. Our friendship is over!”

   Rody felt his heart sink, especially with the next line spoken.

   “I don’t wanna be seen by a freak son of Humarise.”

   Rody went quiet after that. Chloe seething in rage and Todoroki looking down, not feeling hungry anymore. Fei just kept quiet still, but her eyes were hard.

   “After that, things just went from bad to worse. I eventually was kicked out of school since the Headmaster didn’t want a wacko cult’s son to stain that beloved school of his. Roro cannot be accepted into another school and no one wanted Lala in any daycare center. And…a-and Mr. Plastic’s sidekicks always came around and beat me up. Not just them, some of the people we looked up to as our friendly neighbours in the community would do the same…and the sidekicks would turn a blind eye from it and even join them.”

   “W-what?!” Todoroki’s eyes widened as Chloe gasped.

    Fei felt sick into her stomach at hearing this. She never thought she would actually find someone that had a similar past like her. She can see where this story was going now.

   Rody sighed, looking away, “Yeah…because I’m a bad guy.” 

   Rody pushed his siblings behind him as three of Mr. Plastic’s sidekicks towered over the kids, one holding a pipe in hand, ready to swing down at him.

   After an hour, Rody laid in the garbage with his siblings crying over him in fear and sadness, Rody staring up at the sky with dead eyes.

    He soon brought them home, but his eyes widened seeing their house was destroyed. Spray painted words of slurs and curses were all over the house and windows shattered as if rocks were thrown at them. Rody reading each one of the writings.

    Humarise Scum! Villain! Crazies!

    Rody felt Roro and Lala crying against his legs, the boy feeling his anger rise at remembering the words from the parents of his classmates.

   “I heard the father of that family ran away!”

    “Edward Soul is a wanted criminal? I’ve always had my suspicions—“

   “On top of that, he became a member of Humarise!”

  “They were responsible for the incident the other day too!”

   “The crazy group that thinks quirks are a sickness?”

   “You can’t judge a book by its cover!”

   “He was a famous engineer wasn’t he?”

    “Kids, don’t play with them anymore.”

    Rody looked at the cracked picture of his siblings in his locket around his neck, remembering the tears they shed…and his own.

   “Since that day, we lost our home. The very house my mother grew up in. We lost trust in the people in our town…and I never saw either Lila or Zoe ever again. Eventually, Mr. Plastic and his agency moved on to another country, leaving our town became the number one dirt poor place rising in crime in Europe. We were doomed from the start…”

    Rody breathed out and glanced up to the three, surprised when seeing Chloe already in tears along with Fei looking pale, while Todoroki stared at him in sympathy. Even the kwamis were sobbing for Rody.

   “Ah…S-sorry, I didn’t mean to make you guys sad…must’ve ruined your appetite now.” Rody laughed, trying to lighten the mood but then squeaked when Fei reached out and hugged him.

    “I am so sorry you went through all that.” She ended up saying with a choked sound, finding hard to swallow as she was feeling a wave of familiarity of Rody’s situation.

    She could’ve ended up like Rody. Well, she did…but then Sir Nighteye and Mirio came into her life along with Marinette and Adrien.

     If it wasn’t for them…she didn’t know WHERE she would be today.

     It made her thankful that she was shown a better way of life even when she thought she lost EVERYTHING.

   “My gosh, that is so sad! Honestly, what you went through is such bullshit! How did those idiot people let this go so far! And to kids none the less!” Chloe growled, then pulled back as she was grabbing her phone, “I’m gonna have to complain! Even tell Marinette—“

  “You can’t tell anyone about this!” Rody stopped her with a frightened look, “They won’t get it.”

  “But Mr. Plastic isn’t to be trusted,” Todoroki murmured, eyes narrowed, “That’s what I’ve gathered from your story. We should tell Eraserhead and Sir Nighteye at the very least, they’d want to know.”

   Fei nodded, “This is injustice! We must at least tell someone we trust and help you! What you’ve been through…it is inhumane!”

   Rody laughed weakly, looking at the three of them in disbelief.

   “W-why go through the trouble for me? I didn’t tell you my story to gain sympathy points or anything—”

   “You’re part of the team now, making you our friend.” Fei said confidently, making Rody stare at her in surprise.

   Todoroki agreed with her, “I’ve learnt a lot about friendship and what you went through isn’t it. Maybe this time around, you need better friends. Like us.”

  Chloe nodded in agreement, “Yes. From now on, anyone that messes with you, messes with us!”

  Rody continued to look at them with wide eyes, the shock soon turning into amusement and awe. He started laughing out loud before falling back onto the bed. The three teens looked confused at the thief, Rody rolling to the side while holding his stomach as Pino was chirping in giggles as well with crocodile tears.

   Fei watched Rody and Pino carefully, almost entranced how in sync they were.

   Breathing out once he got his giggles out, Rody sat up and wiped his eyes, smiling.

  “You guys are so weird.” He then softened, shrugging, “I dunno if I should fully trust you yet, but…thanks. For listening to my story and…feeling sorry for me? I guess?”

   “It’s not feeling sorry for you,” Todoroki said as he softened, “But I will say that it was unfortunate you went through all that.”

     Fei wanted to say more, but the look in her eyes said everything. Rody managed to catch that look and was honestly surprised.

     Did…did she understand him?

     Did she go through what he went through to?

     ‘A kindred spirit maybe…?’ Rody thought, before he then heard the rich blonde speak.

   “Makes me wonder how many other people that Rossi managed to hurt,” Chloe murmured, but then looked worried, “If Zoe and Lila know each other and turn out to be besties, how come Zoe didn’t say anything to her?”

  That got Todoroki’s attention quickly, “You’re right…if what Rody’s story told us is true, they should’ve been close, correct?”

   “It did not seem like they were close, though?” Fei caught on, looking thoughtful, “More like they were strangers.”

   “…Unless Zoe knows that Lila was a liar and she—?” Chloe gasped, as she was grabbing her phone now, making the boys and Fei look confused.

   “What’s wrong?” Rody asked, before Chloe raised a finger up to him, her eyes looking worried now.

    Fei had a bad feeling about this.

   Lady Noire blinked in surprise when she felt her communicator of a baton vibrating against her hip, then looked down to it. She turned her gaze at her teammates, already meeting with some of the United Heroez. There was Majestia, Cow Lady, Knight Owl…and Mr. Plastic.

   While everyone gathered to go to a room where the dinner will be held, the Cat Heroine stepped back for a moment to answer her communicator.

  “…Chloe?”

   Boom Beetle and Dragon Knight paused, then walked back to where Lady Noire was, peeking over her shoulder.

   “Mari—er, what are you wearing?” Chloe’s face was on screen as she spotted Boom Beetle, but then gasped, “Did you swap Miraculous?!”

   “Yeah. Some of us swapped, considering Aizawa suggested we should wear disguises to hide our true identities. Tonight, I’m Lady Noire.” The female feline explained, raising a brow as Chloe looked contemplative.

     “Is Rossi wearing a Miraculous?”

    “Er, yes?”

    “Oh thank god, then it’s okay for now.”

    “What’s going on, Chlo?” Dragon Knight asked, sort of worried that maybe there’s something wrong.

   “Rody told me, Fei and Shoto-baby that Lila and Zoe know each other.”

   Boom Beetle raised a brow, “So? They’re friends then?”

   “More like they both were the cause of ruining Rody’s life.”

   Both the boys froze in shock while Lady Noire placed a hand over her mouth.

   “W-wait, what? What do you mean?” She asked quietly, looking confused.

   “There’s more.” Todoroki came on screen this time with a serious gaze, “We are also to believe that Mr. Plastic is also a man to be wary off, considering he was investigating Rody-kun’s father.”

   “More like framed his Daddy for something he didn’t do without any proof! Ridiculous! UTTERLY RIDICULOUS!” Chloe was screaming now, Todoroki covering his ears for a moment when she continued on, “Rody was a kid! A small young one at that! What could a kid answer when being confronted by someone bigger than him?! Why, I’d totally call my Daddy and complain—”

    Todoroki shook his head, turning to calm her down while Chloe kept on shouting, prompting Fei to continue for them.

   ”Also his “sidekicks” are not very good people. They tend to use their powers for nefarious purpose and prejudice. This was at least four years ago when they were assigned to Otheon.”

    Chloe, Fei and Todoroki had to summarise more of what Rody told them, even having Rody confirm it out of the video’s shot.

   “Some heroes be like that. Corrupt and pretty much having a big ego,” Boom Beetle said gruffly, glancing over to the American Heroes, “Not too surprising. Not everyone can be as good as All Might.”

   “That’s weird. Shouldn’t Lila have said something when seeing Zoe and Mr. Plastic?” Dragon Knight hummed once the explanations were done, tapping at his chin.

    Chloe shrugged.

   “I don’t think Zoe even noticed her, nor did that man even care. Doubt Rossi cared to know of the girl she used years ago, or even remembers her.”

   Chloe turned the call to show Rody, who looked grim.

   “Whatever you do, do not let Lila Rossi and Zoe Lee meet.”

    And the call was cut off.

   All three looked at each other with frowns, Boom Beetle speaking up.

   “Shouldn’t be too hard. Although now I’m a little curious…”

    “We should get going before All Might or Eraserhead wonder why we haven’t joined them yet.” Lady Noire murmured, taking the boys back to the dinner party.

   Feathertop saw them and waved them over, already pulling the Cat Heroine close to him while asking what was wrong.

    “Chloe called. Told us that Lila and Zoe know each other, or at least they did know each other but never noticed one another. It’s not a good kind of knowing each other either, according to Chloe. Also, don’t get close to Mr. Plastic.” She explained, while the Peacock Hero hummed, “Rody even confirmed it.”

   “Noted. I’ll tell the others discreetly.”

   “Thanks.”

   The two sat with each other and blinked when they spotted Lupina talking to Zoe of all people, who happened to be here tonight.

    Lady Noire had to move closer to listen to the conversation they were having, but squeaked when she almost bumped into Shinso.

  “Oh! Hitoshi, sorry!”

  “What’s your rush?”

   “I’m going to see what Lila is talking about with Zoe,” She noticed that Izuku was nowhere in sight, “Where’s Izuku?”

    “He’s in hiding. Dunno why,” Hitoshi hummed, looking around, “Maybe the others might know where he is…”

   A question came into Lady Noire’s mind.

    “Was Zoe Lee in your timeline, Hitoshi?”

   The purple haired male surprisingly shook his head, “This makes her sort of an anomaly. A wild card. As much as Midoriya is.”

  “I see. So you wanted to investigate on what he’s up as well as Zoe, huh?”

   “I am curious why he wanted to be himself tonight instead of having a Miraculous. I think it has something to do with that girl.”

    Lady Noire knew he was right.

   “Alright then, then let’s go together. Er, where’s R—Bonnie Blanche and Whisketeer?”

   She almost slipped into calling them their real names for a second.

   “They went to the girls’ room, don’t worry.”

   And so, the two wandered to where Lupina was chatting up with Zoe, already hearing the blonde chirping in a happy tone.

    “So, wait, you know All Might for how long?” They heard Zoe asking Lupina, who was flicking her hair back with a proud smirk.

   “For a while now~ He has recruited us so we could join under his tutelage and become future heroes~” The Dog Heroine boasted, hand over her heart as she played the role of someone being above everyone while humble.

    Lady Noire had to shake her head, not surprised that Lila was back to her old attitude while Shinso just rolled his eyes.

   “Oh no~ This could go wrong~” Sparrow murmured under their breath, looking at Uncanny Valley and Tsukuyomi, “What do you think, you two? Should we do something?”

   The robotic girl looked confused, “Y-you think we should?”

   “No. I was just kidding.” Sparrow sighed with exasperation, hand over the mask, “This whole situation is just plain boring!”

   The bird headed hero stopped listening to his companion’s lamenting, his dark crimson eyes following a suspicious looking waiter walking up to Ubayagi. Narrowing his eyes, Tokoyami walked over to him and cleared his throat.

   The ginger haired waiter paused for a moment, glancing at the bird boy with a grin.

    “Oh! May I help you, sir?”

   “What are your intentions on approaching that lady?” Tokoyami was always one to get to the point.

    This caused the other male to look amused.

    “Just a big fan of heroes, ya know? But I’m also doing my job~”

    Tokoyami raised a brow for a moment, before he heard Ubayagi’s voice speak.

   “What seems to be the trouble here?”

    Somehow this caused the attention of Lady Noire, Boom Beetle, Dragon Knight, Lupina and Zoe.

    The ginger haired waiter gave a happy look when he turned to her, taking Ubayagi’s hand.

    “Sorry I just…I am amazed seeing a new teen hero up close. It’s nice to meet you Miss…?”

    "Ubayagi.” The Goat Heroine murmured, recognizing him as the boy she met a few hours ago.

     The ginger haired male smiled, seeing how the girl’s eyes sparked up in recognition. Bingo.

     “I’m Andy Baker. Not to sound rude but…don’t you find this fuddy duddy party for you boring?”

      “What’s going on?” Feathertop appeared beside his dragon of a best friend, tilting his head and wondering why they haven’t come back to the party.

     “What do you mean?” Lady Noire asked at the same time with Ubayagi, as Andy chuckled.

     “What I mean is that you are surrounding yourselves with adults that don’t know the meaning of entertaining foreign guests. You’re in New York, the city of dreams~! Don’t you wanna explore the town?” Andy asked as he raised Ubayagi’s hand and kissed the back of it, giving her a charming wink.

     Lady Noire had to roll her eyes. He was too much like Adrien as Chat Noir. But it seems that the Goat Heroine was charmed easily, thanks to that.

     “I’m pretty sure these old timers can’t show ya’ll a good time. So I offer my services as fun tour guide during your stay~”

     This caused Lady Noire to frown, “We already have a tour planned tomorrow—“

     “That’s during the day~! But have you never seen the city at night~?” Andy offered, chuckling at the Cat Heroine’s wary gaze, “Besides, I could give ya’ll a hero’s special.”

     “How can we even trust a civilian like you?” Boom Beetle scoffed, arms folded.

     “A civilian like me~? That’s rich.” Andy soon pulled up something from his pocket, showing them some sort of badge like device with a symbol of a ghost, “I think I can relate to you guys more than you think.”

      “Is that…?” Dragon Knight gasped for a second before Lady Noire covered his mouth.

        Andy coolly smirked before he hid his item with an innocent smiled.

       “So~? How about it? Ditch the coots and have a real party out~?”

       “It…is kinda boring?” Feathertop agreed as he glanced over to the rest of the Miraculous Team, some of them looking half asleep while Mr. Plastic was stoically retelling some story of how he saved a few people.

      “…Maybe we could go out for a bit and then come back before they know it?” Dragon Knight suggested, “We could even use Star Stallion’s abilities~”

     Lady Noire sighed, rubbing at her temple before she realized Zoe was still with them.

     “C-can I come?” Zoe asked meekly, although when Andy looked at her, she shrunk back while waving her hands in front of her, “A-actually, forget it! I-I think it’d be better if I stay behind. D-don’t wanna worry Fa—Ah, M-Mr. Plastic and all.”

     Something in Andy’s eyes sparkled for a second before he chuckled.

    “Well, the more the merrier, right? I don’t mind ya tagging along, Blondie~” The ginger haired male winked, “You can even meet other young heroes our age~”

    Ubayagi’s eyes widened, “Wait, wait, we just can’t leave. And we just met you! We don’t know if we could—“

    “What are you guys doing?”

     Howler approached them along with the rest of the team. One by one, each Miraculous hero curiously came over to see what was taking Lady Noire and them so long. Uncanny Valley and Sparrow even joined, intrigued.

    “Apparently this young man wants to take us out to see New York City at night. He…also seems to be a hero, like us.”  Ubayagi explained, making Bonnie Blanche squeal.

    “Another hero!? Like us!? And going out to see New York at night?!” She clapped her hands in excitement, looking to Whisketeer and Shinso, “That sounds like fun! We should go!”

    “But what about the adults?” Cobalt Bull asked, arms folded and glancing at the heroes still dining and talking, “They’ll be suspicious if we’re all gone. Especially Eraserhead and All Might.”

    “Would you rather listen to the drivel of that weird toilet hero that talks about how Australia’s water cycle spins the other way?” Onagadori murmured with a raised brow, before looking at Rockershella, “Let’s go.”

   “W-would it be manly to just go without telling the heroes?” The Turtle Hero scratched at his cheek nervously, glancing at Boom Beetle, “Are you going?”

   “Honestly, anywhere is better than standing around with some wannabe heroes talking about their success stories and glory days,” The blond Ladybug Hero hummed then nodded, “I’m in.”

   “Ka—I mean, Boom Beetle!” Lady Noire gaped at him, before a voice piped up beside her.

    “I think it’s a great idea!” Izuku appeared between them, looking like he ran a marathon while his eyes were darting around, “Let’s go go go! We can trust him!”

   “Star Stallion, could you give us a hand here?” Dragon Knight asked with a smile, already feeling excited.      

    Lady Noire raised a brow, already seeing that Feathertop agreed with his best friend, the others soon joining in the idea of sneaking out and having some fun. Even Shinso, which surprised the feline girl, considering he was the most paranoid besides her. Although the most eager to get out of here was Izuku. Perhaps it was because he was trying to run away from a certain someone.

   Star Stallion squeaked before he nodded, calling forth his voyage but then paused, “Er, w-where are we going anyways?”

     “Where else? We can start with Madison Square Garden!” Andy suggested, “We’ll be meeting some of my friends there soooo~ I’ll show ya the way~”

    Uncanny Valley tilted her head for a moment with a raised brow, before she glanced at Sparrow with an inquisitive look, “Why aren’t you stopping them? I thought we are supposed to look after them and not get them into trouble?”

   “Well if we’re gonna watch over them, we might as well just follow them and make sure they’re safe. Besides, didn’t you want to make friends with them and do something fun?”

    Uncanny smiled for a moment, but then paused.

    “Sparrow, you cannot reveal your identity…”

    “I’ll stay behind and distract the adults. You and Tsukuyomi can follow them~” Sparrow patted the robot like heroine’s shoulders and chuckled, “Have fun, little sis.”

   Olivia “Liv” Baker was usually the cool and calm twin.

   But that wasn’t the case currently as she watched a portal appear before her and her friend, Mike Collins, and soon her idiot twin brother’s head popped out.

   “Got some friends~” Andy jumped out from the portal, as one by one, young teenage heroes were following him out while looking around in awe.

    Liv sighed, palming her face with an eye roll before giving a stern look over her brother’s grinning face.

     “Andy, I thought you were just getting one of the heroes. Not all of them.”

    “One, twenty three? What’s the difference?” Andy snickered, before he tilted his head towards the teens, “Er, you know, you can de-transform out of your hero personas. Not like we’re gonna squeal to anyone who you guys are since we’re all on the same boat. Be better if you went incognito without being bombarded by civilians, eh?”

    There were some that were unsure about doing that, although Trickster Tails grinned as she murmured a ‘Trixx, Let’s Rest!’ and transformed back into Alix, the Fox Kwami landing on top of her head.

   “Alix!” Lady Noire squeaked out with wide eyes, but soon she spotted Boom Beetle de-transforming, the same with Cape Crusader and Feathertop.

      With that said, everyone seemed to change back into their civilian forms. Even Uncanny Valley felt her ‘glamour’ shimmer while Tokoyami pressed onto a necklace he was wearing, and the people that knew him turned to him in shock.

    “T-Tokoyami!” Kirishima was the first to speak, staring at the now normal looking boy with black hair and red eyes, “You look…normal.”

     “Even if heroes here are not big on the whole secret identity ordeal, I do not want to be approached by the press as Hawk’s intern.” Tokoyami explained, shrugging his shoulder, “Do I look strange?”

    “Not at all,” Momo shook her head, smiling, “Although it is surreal since we are used to you with how you truly look. But it does suit you, even though I personally like you just the way you are.”

    “Guess I can’t call ya birdhead right now, huh?” Bakugo snorted, making both Kirishima and Momo sigh.

     Lady Noire was the only one that hasn’t transformed back, looking at her friends with a frown.

    “No point putting ourselves in danger with having targets on our backs,” Nino stated reasonably to her, shrugging his shoulders before he smiled, “Besides, New York TOUR! At NIGHT! This is off the chain!”

  “I think we should introduce ourselves first before anything,” Liv glared at Andy before looking back at the others with a smile, “Hi, I’m Liv. I’m also known as Myst in my hero identity, part of Ghost Force,”

   “Ghost Force?” Nino breathed out before gasping in realisation,”I heard about you guys! You’re like the upcoming new teen team not affiliated with United Heroez!”

  “Not like we could ever join them anyways~ They ain’t cooler than we are,” Andy glanced at Aeon specifically on this one, before smiling at the group once more, “As you know, I’m Andy. Liv’s cooler twin and the hero, Fury! Also known as the leader of Ghost Force~”

   “So not the team leader.” Liv grumbled, while the other boy next to her coughed.

    “I’m Mike. Also known as Krush. Pleasure to meet you guys!”

   “Ah, back’atcha dude!” Nino grinned, fist bumping Mike in camaraderie.

   Marinette finally transformed back to her civilian form, before looking to Liv.

   “It seems sort of reckless that you revealed yourself to us. What if we weren’t what we seemed?”

   Liv winked, “Maybe it’s because we’ve known about you since your arrival. But hey, as my idiot brother said, we’re all on the same side here and wish to meet you guys in person without the Heroez United watching.”

   “How come?” Nathaniel asked.

   Mike looked sort of nervous now, but then shrugged.

    “Heroez United don’t believe children should be trying to be heroes themselves. Which, I guess I can get since we’re minors—“

   “Ahhh, those old farts are scared we can do their jobs better! We mostly clean up the city every single day for them along with those two magic duo!” Andy complained, although Marinette perked up at the word magic.

   “Y-You guys said there are more young heroes like us? Are they also coming here?”

    “Yeah, they should be coming along any minute now,” Liv hummed, looking at her phone, “I think you’ll like them a lot, since they are familiar with your kind of heroism and magic. Ya know, with those flying little creatures hiding in your clothes.”

   Almost all the Miraculous holders looked sheepish while their Kwamis peeked out to look at the American trio.

   It was then that Zoe let out a soft gasp when seeing Lila for the first time without her Miraculous active, looking shocked.

   “L-Lila?”

    The brunette looked at her for a moment, raising a brow, “…Do I know you?”

    Marinette paled. Oh no.

    It was then a whooshing sound was heard and she whipped her head around to see Star Stallion opening another portal, with Izuku popping out with Chloe and Todoroki following from behind him.

   “W-wait-wait-wait, what are you doing?!”

    Star Stallion yelped as he looked to Marinette, then looked scared.

     “A-ah, Izuku told me to not transform back yet and let th-the others from the hotel come join us.”

    Marinette wanted to argue and even hit Izuku for that suggestion, but it was too late. She watched Rody hop out, turning back to offer his hand out to Fei, who was stepping forward out of the portal while taking the hand. Everything happened so quickly, with Zoe gasping again and Rody turning to the source of the sound, paling drastically.

   Rody was quick to turn to Izuku.

   “Y-You didn’t tell me she was going to be here!”

   The green haired male shrugged calmly with a small smile.

    “If I did, you wouldn’t have come.”

     Rody growled, bitting his tongue when he heard someone calling his name again. Slowly turning around, Rody faced Zoe, who was looking tearfully happy.

   “R-Rody? Is that…you?”

   Awkward silence filled the air as Rody glared daggers at Zoe, who had a look of nostalgia and relief at seeing him.

     Fei was at Rody’s side immediately, sensing his distress and seeing Pino looking sick to her wings. The poor bird shook with big fat tears behind her masked bandana that matched with Rody’s red one holding up his hair back. The Chinese girl was quick to touch Rody’s gloved hand in comfort, gaining Rody’s attention. He looked down at her own fingerless gloved hand, then back to look Fei in the eyes, his facial expression soon softened. The feral look in his own eyes disappeared, filling Fei with a sense of relief.

     This caught Zoe’s attention, who smile faded slightly.

     She ended up coughing to get Rody to look at her again.

   “R-rody. It’s…it’s been a long time.”

    Chloe and Todoroki noticed this, and the two quickly moved protectively in front of Rody and Fei, Chloe giving the more haughty approach while Todoroki was deadly silent.

    “Excuse me, but who do you think you are? Trying to talk to him after what you put him through?”

    The other blonde blinked in surprise, before looking strangely at Chloe.

    “I’m sorry, dear sister Chloe, but Rody and I have been friends ever since we were kids. We haven’t seen each other in a long time, so of course we—“

    “You did not hear what she said, did you?” Todoroki spoke coldly, narrowing his eyes, “Chloe-san and I know about your past with Rody-san. You cannot fool us and say that you two are close friends anymore.”

    Zoe almost shrank back at the boy’s icy tone, and everyone could feel how Todoroki stared at her with a dark expression while Chloe seemed to be holding back her anger. Marinette thought Zoe would be dead on the spot with the way they were looking at the now scared girl.

    “O-Oh dear…” Mike gulped, almost as if he was scared a fight was going to break out.

     Liv pursed her lips, feeling sort of awkward of the tense atmosphere, and glanced to her twin. Only to be surprised how calm Andy was. Even to the point he looked…amused.

    It was then a new voice spoke up awkwardly in greeting, making everyone turned to the source and saw that there were two teenagers approaching them. The one that spoke was a long haired blonde girl with bright green eyes, Adrien almost believing that she was a younger version of both his mother and Aunt ( he’s still confused on who should be who at this point) but had some dusted freckles over the bridge of her nose like Kagami. Next to the girl, was a boy with hair as red as Nathaniel’s in a darker shade, but tied in a short ponytail and glasses over his blue eyes.

   “Oh~ You guys took your sweet time,” Andy turned to the newcomers, smiling, “Didn’t think you’d show up and continue hiding in the shadows, observing~”

   The red haired male that showed up quirked a brow, “Well, our dear fairy wished to meet the Miraculous Holders of Paris, considering we are one of the same with them.”

   Marinette and Adrien both perked up at this, looking at the new duo for a moment before the pigtailed girl spoke up almost excitedly.

   “Are you…M-Miraculous Holders too?”

   The blonde girl turned to Marinette, equally looking excited as she bobbed her head up and down in confirmation.

   “I am!” Offering her hand out, the girl smiled happily, “I’m Holly Rosewood. I’m also known as Pixie Girl!”

   Suddenly, a small golden creature flew out from the girl’s jean jacket that she was wearing, looking a lot like Tikki but…more Fairy like with a ponytail and little pixie wings.

   “And I’m her Kwami of Nature, Florra~” The creature chirped, her wings buzzing behind her.

    “Florra?” Tikki popped out from Bakugo’s hair, eyes wide, “Is that you, my friend?“

    ”Tikki!” The Kwami chirped as the two rushed towards each other and hugging happily, “It has been too long, dear Tikki! Centuries?”

   “More like millennia, Florra!” Tikki hummed, Marinette and Holly looking amazed at they Kwamis.

   “Oh great.”  Plagg popped out from’s Marinette’s purse, looking like around in dread, “If she’s here, then—”

   “Hello, Plagg~”

   Marinette watched Plagg float out from his hiding place, groaning as a strange owl-like Kwami floated towards him. The creature looked like the night sky, sparkling like the stars.

   “Hecca! You’re here as well.” Tikki chirped, looking at the Kwami who was floating back to their holder.

   “Indeed. I am owned by my Master, Lord Orion, as he is the hero: The Sorcerer.”

    The red haired male coughed, adjusting his round rimmed glasses.

    “Y-Yes. My name is Aster Orion. My Kwami is the Kwami of Stars.”

   “So you’re her Chat Noir in a way!” Nino pointed out to Holly then back to Aster, clicking his fingers before he then scratched his head, “But I’ve never heard of a Pixie Girl and The Sorcerer before?”

   “You wouldn’t have. They like to work covertly in the shadows considering they work with magic, something that humans have a hard time believing,” Liv explained, shrugging her shoulders, “Although that’s kinda bull, considering people see ghosts everyday and everything, so it’s not weird to see magical creatures.”

   “Magical creatures?” Marc, who transformed back, asked and Andy grinned.

    “Like unicorns and vampires? They’re real.”

   “Get out! Seriously?!” Alix balked at him, before Rose started squealing out loud.

   “I KNEW IT! I KNEW UNICORNS ARE REAL!” She screamed out, jumping up and suddenly yelping when she landed back down, cracking the pavement under her feet, “O-Oh! Whoops!”

   “Super strength huh?” Andy hummed nodding while looking impressed, “Guess I shouldn’t get ya on your bad side huh?”

   Rose rubbed the side of her neck sheepishly, while Juleka and Shinso sighed even though they were smiling fondly at her.

   “This is so exciting!” Marinette almost grabbing Holly’s hand, but refrained from doing so as she asked, “Does this mean there are other Miraculous holders in the United States?“

   Both Holly and Aster looked troubled for a moment, looking at each other silently. This caught Adrien’s attention as he frowned.

   “What is it?”

   Aster sighed, touching his temple and rubbed it gentle.

   “W-well, the thing is…there should be more. Actually, from what we know, there are two Miracle boxes. One of the North American side, and one of the South.”

   “I only discovered mine after the previous holder of Florra’s had…um…” Holly averted her eyes down, “That woman found me when I was walking around Central Park a year ago, it looked like she was attacked. Before she...left this world, she entrusted me Florra and said I was to be the new Pixie Girl.”

   “Unlike Lady Holly, my Kwami was passed down my family for generations,” Aster continued on, pushing his glasses up, “My whole family are familiar with magic, to the point it is believed my ancestors were all witches and wizards.”

    Marinette and Adrien listened carefully while the rest of them were intrigued, almost wanting to ask questions.

   “And again, there should be other Miraculous Holders. But they have not shown themselves yet, or…”

   “Or there aren’t any.” Marinette breathed out, “Master Fu did say that while the Temple of the Order did disappear a hundred years ago along with the monks inside, there might be boxes that are hidden in other countries. And Guardians in charge of them.”

   “You said Master…is he the guardian of your box?” Aster inquired, and Marinette nodded in response.

   “Yes. Do you two have a Master?”

   “And a Miracle Box?” Adrien added in question as well.

    Again, the two watched both Holly and Aster giving each other weird glances.

   It was then Holly spoke.

   “No. In fact, despite our Kwamis telling us everything we needed to know about our Miraculous, there was no such thing as a Guardian considering we could not find the box they were originally from.”

   “Even my family, who are in the know of the Miraculous and the magical world, could not figure out where the Miracle Boxes of the North and South are,” Aster added, frowning, “Pixie Girl and I have been researching and looking for any signs of any Miraculous items or holders for the past year, but sadly, none turned up. Nor any Guardians showed up nor are there any sort of Temple that you have spoken off.”

   “That seems odd. I only know my Renlings and my Prodigious are belonging to my country in Shanghai, and originally my previous adopted father was their Guardian. But it has been recently been passed down to both me and my current father, who has the Lion Protector as his his own “Kwami” and is the temporary Guardian.” Fei spoke up finally, and Marinette almost forgot she was there.

    “Shanghai?” Holly hummed, tapping her chin and smiled, “So you’re one of us too?”

    Fei nodded, “I shall be a Guardian of the Prodigious and the Renlings once I have finished my training. Sister Marinette and six others are also being trained to be Guardians in the future as well. To be our own Order of of the Miraculous.”

     Aster and Holly looked at each other for a moment, then smiled.

    “Then, I suppose that makes us allies to your New Order, hm?” Aster said, looking to his partner, “My dear Fairy Princess, this would mean that technically, we are Guardians of our own Miraculous.”

   Holly grinned, nodding in agreement, “For sure!”

   Marinette had to smiled before she came closer to the two, holding both her hands out.

   “Then, it is fate that we’ve met today. We would love to have you both on our side!”

   The two American duo blinked for a moment, but soon smiled as they soon reached their hand to shake Marinette’s.

   “The pleasure is all ours,” Aster said solemnly, his partner giving the same sentiments.

    It was then Felix spoke up, “Your accent…”

     Aster glanced over to the male, tilting his head as he smiled.

     “Ah, you as well? What part of England?”

    “London. Yourself?”

    “New Castle.”

    “What brings you to America rather than staying in the UK?”

    “Family reasons.”

    Adrien had to sweat drop at seeing the two giving polite yet stern looks at each other, almost as if challenging one another with just their stares alone.

    “Hey hey hey! We’re supposed to give a fun tour! Not to be bored to death with serious talk!” Andy came in between Aster and Felix, sighing, “We’re wasting precious time! C’mon, I can start the tour now and get back up the excitement again!”

    Liv chuckled, “For once, I agree with my idiot brother.”

    Aster sighed, seeing the amused smile on the girl’s face before looking away sheepishly.

    “Right, you’re here for a tour! We should be good hosts of our country and show you the amazing things New York has to offer!” Holly clapped her hands together, giving bright smiles to everyone and soon the American teens started to move.

   Zoe pursed her lips as she watched everyone, especially when eying Rody and the girl named Fei walking side by side far away from her. 

    Who was this Fei?

   Shinso appeared by Izuku’s side, tapping his arm, “Did you plan all this?”

   Izuku just smiled, confirming Shinso’s suspicion.

   “Was it wise to let Zoe Lee come along? To see and listen to all that has just happened?”

   “Everything happens for a reason.” Izuku explained and soon chalked up a happy smile when Lila slid to his side.

   She smiled at him, wrapping her arms around his arm and the two now walking ahead, leaving Shinso behind.

   The tour was amazing.

   The Parisian and Japanese teens were in awe of the sight-seeing, taking in not just the buildings and historical landmarks, but to the people as well. From checking out the Empire State Building light up, to the bright streets that led to Broadway; the group were having a good time and getting to know their new American friends.

   They were on their way to their last stop of the tour, all of them currently on a boat to see the lights of the city.

   “Coney Island?” Nathaniel repeated what Liv suggested, the girl nodding her head.

   “Specifically, we’re going to Luna Park. It’s the best and most fun place to go to at night. There’s a lot of fun rides, games, great food and a lot of things to buy there!” She explained, giving a cheeky wink, “Besides, I heard that Hotdog Dan would be patrolling there. So it would be a good chance to try his magical hotdogs for yourselves~”

   “Hotdog Dan?! The Food Hero?!” Nino almost jumped up in excitement at meeting a famous hero, but then blinked, “Hold on, he’s on patrol? Why wasn’t he in the Atrium tonight?”

   “To be precise, Hotdog Dan does not consider himself to be part of the United Heroez because he “rather be the hero for the underdogs and those that cannot speak for themselves”. Thus he adopted being a Friendly Neighbourhood Hero of Treats and Tasty Food.” Aeon informed them, almost as if reciting it word for word.

   “That’s so cool!” Kirishima said with bright eyes, “I can’t wait to try his food. Why do you say his hotdogs are magical though?”

    The Ghostforce and the duo that are Holly and Aster looked at each other, before giggling quietly under their breaths. This caused the other teens to look confused, but the announcement on their boat saying they arrived on Coney Island distracted them.

   Soon, all the teens stepped off and the ones that weren’t from New York were once again in surprise at seeing the theme park before them.

   “Welcome to Luna Park~” Andy loudly announced, waving his hands up and smiling brightly, “Saving the best place for last~!”

    Adrien was about to step forward along with the rest of their friends, but paused when seeing Marinette hesitating by the entrance. He walked over to her, tilting his head.

   “Bug?”

   “I…is it really a good time to just goof around like this? We’re not on vacation.”

    Adrien rubbed the side of his neck. He knew that Marinette was having a hard time letting her guard down, especially when so much has happened in so little time.

   Taking her hand, he squeezed it gently, giving an assuring smile.

   “What’s one night going to do? Marinette, you’ve worked so hard and went through so much in the past few months. A-and some of them were caused by me at times as Chat Noir…”

     Marinette softened, “Chaton.”

   “Relax for just tonight. You’re not Ladybug. You’re not the future Guardian in training that needs to be alert 24/7. You’re just Marinette. A normal teenager that should loosen up and have fun for once.” Adrien then smiled, even more so when Marinette squeezed her hand back and smiled softly.

   “…You’re right. I mean I’m only a kid once in my life, right?”

   “Right~”

   “…Adrien, I’m sorry I seemed so…lame these past few days.” Marinette looked almost embarrassed, “And maybe I shouldn’t be so hard on Izuku and Hitoshi too…”

   “No one’s blaming ya, Bug. We know how stressed out you are and you take things very seriously. But just for tonight, you can let those worries go and enjoy the amusement park, okay?”

   “Yes!” Marinette nodded, soon rushing forward to talk with Izuku, while Adrien lagged behind.

   Pausing in his steps once more, he watched as Marinette dragged Izuku to one of the rides, Lila following after them angrily and Bakugo following after them calmly.

   Adrien couldn’t help but chuckle in amusement.

   That was until he felt a presence next to him.

   “That was very mature of you, Adrien. It almost seems like you still have feelings for her.”

   The blond glanced over at Kagami for a moment, then shrugged.

   “I would be lying if I said that I’ve moved on. But what’s important is…”

   Adrien glanced over to Marinette’s smiling face once more, softening.

  “I just want her to be happy.”

   Kagami stared at him for a moment, but after a minute, she gave one nod and looked away. This caused Adrien to be curious about something.

   “What about you?”

   “What about me?”

    “Do you still have feelings for me?”

     Kagami didn’t hesitate. “No.”

    Adrien laughed, “Wow~ That’s cold. No wonder Marinette called you Ice Queen before we went ice-skating together.”

   “She did?”

  “Yeah, but, I don’t think she meant it in a bad way.” Adrien paused, but then smiled, “Is it because of Eijiro?”

    This time, Kagami had a confident smile.

    “Yes. I adore him. Much more than I thought I felt with you.”

   “How can you be so sure?”

    The two heard a voice calling Kagami’s name, and they looked towards the source to see Kirishima smiling while waving his hand, holding some sort of stuffed dragon plush under his other arm.

    Kagami closed her eyes, a fond smile gracing her lips.

    “Because I am his first and only choice.”

    Adrien hummed, nodding his head, “I’m happy for you, Kagami.”

   “And I wish for you to find your fated one someday as well.”

    With that, Kagami walked forward to meet with Kirishima, who was sheepishly presenting the gift he won from one of the games. His face bright and cheeks glowing in pink, Kirishima seemed like a happy puppy as he was rubbing the back of his head while he talked to her. Kagami was just smiling calmly as he did, but did lean up to kiss the taller boy’s cheek, keeping the toy close.

   Adrien just watched on, before glancing at the Ferris Wheel close by, Kagami’s words repeating in his mind.

   “My fated one, huh?”

   “She keeps staring at us. It’s kinda creepy.”

    Rody tilted his head when he heard Chloe murmur to Todoroki, glancing behind them to see Zoe staring at their group while Andy was talking to her, not realising that the blonde wasn’t listening to a word he was saying.

   He was thankful that not only did Fei stay by his side during the whole tour, but both Chloe and Todoroki have been preventing Zoe trying to find chances to approach him anytime she tried. He was even joined by Alix and Marc, who he had gotten to know and has become close friends with.

   He was lucky to have them. How long has it been since he had real friends?

   Rody bit his lower lip, shaking his head from the thoughts.

    He shouldn’t get too close. Believing he could be friends this easily with these people that he barely knew was what brought down his whole life in the first place.

    Zoe was proof of that.

    Fei noticed Rody being silent again, and nudged him.

   “If you frown anymore like that, you shall have a soggy face in the future.”

   Rody blinked, looking at the Chinese girl strangely before snorting.

   “Are you saying I’m going to look like an ugly pug if I keep frowning?”

   “It is a fact! Frown lines can produce the more you do, and it adds so much extra skin that will stretch out then wither as you grow older,” Fei said as-matter-of-factly, making Rody laugh quietly, “I am very serious!”

   “Haha, s-sure…”

   “What she says is true though. That’s why old ladies have make up and do surgeries when they have money,” Alix piped up cheekily, licking her ice cream, “So smile~ We’re supposed to be having fun~ Be kids~”

     “Be kids, huh?” Rody looked to the corndog in his hand, Pino deflating from the top of his head. ‘How can I ever go back to acting like a kid after everything? I feel like I lost my chance at that…’

   “Yes. Enjoy your youth while you can. You never know what may happen tomorrow, or in the future,” Fei said wisely, as she sipped her soda while staring at Rody, “I have learned to cherish the moments in this time like a gift. That is why it is called, the present.”

   “Got that from a fortune cookie?” Rody joked, but his smile fell when she wasn’t laughing.

   “My…my first adopted father, who was also my Shifu, had taught me that.”

    Alix took this time to skate away and drag Chloe, Todoroki and Marc to some game she wanted to try, while Fei continued her words to Rody.

    “When he died, I had lost my way. I was trying to grasp on reality without him in my life. I ended up planning revenge on the ones that took him away from me, calling it justice.”

   “…Why are you telling me this?” Rody asked, before Fei shrugged.

   “I am just saying, I know what it is like to think that I do not deserve to act my age and grow up too quickly. That I…do not deserve any child-like happiness anymore.”

    “…”

   Fei glanced over at Rody, then smiled warmly.

   “It is alright to be immature once in a while. To have thoughts of being a kid and enjoy life without feeling guilty. It will not kill you to just…not be so on guard to everyone you meet and think they are going to stab you in the back. Otherwise, you’ll lose sight on the people that will be good influences on you.”

    Fei immediately thought to Marinette, and had to smile gratefully in thought. The same when her thoughts went to Adrien, Mirio and Sir Nighteye.

   Rody watched her facial expression carefully, then felt embarrassed as he scratched his cheek shyly.

  “I…I guess I never thought that someone else has kinda gone through something similar to me…”

    Fei titled her head, glancing up to Pino, who seemed to be flustered and covering her face with her wings while chirping loudly.

   Rody noticed this and was quick to grab his bird, quietening her down and hiding her in his jacket, “A-anyways, should we ride some rides?”

   The Chinese girl was about to agree, but noticed that Zoe was coming their way. Rody sensed who Fei was looking at and without looking back, he grabbed Fei’s hand and made his way to the Ferris Wheel ride that was close by.

    Zoe slowed her walk as she watched the two disappear into the crowd that was going to line up for the ride, feeling her stomach fall.

   “What are you going to say to him?”

   The blonde jumped for a moment, turning her head to see that Luka was now at her side, looking at her curiously. Not accusatory as some of the people in this group have so far, but more of quiet observation. So it was kinda a relief for her.

    Biting her lower lip, Zoe looked away.

    “I just…I-I wanted to talk to him about everything. About us, how we parted ways so badly and a lot of other things.”

    The guitarist hummed, crossing his arms over his chest and leg over the other in a lackadaisy manner.

    “Your melody is pretty messed up.”

    When he saw the confused look on her face, he elaborated.

    “I kinda have this talent, see? I could feel one’s tune in their very person pretty well. But yours? It is…strange.“

     “I-In what way?” Zoe asked, now curious of the boy.

     Luka thought about it for a moment, before he then looked around as if searching for something. Once his eyes landed on what he needed, he soon walked over to a merchant’s booth, asking the owner something. The owner smiled, nodding their head and then pulling out what seems to be an acoustic guitar.

    Zoe tilted her head when he walked back to her, and saw that the boy was gesturing for her to sit on the bench that was close by. Once seated, Luka strummed his guitar a little, almost tuning it to perfection.

   “See, when I feel a melody of a person, it usually conveys someone’s emotions and what they’re feeling in the moment. An example…”

   He looked up, spotting Katsuki and Marinette lining up for some snacks. It seemed the two were playfully bantering with one another, and Luka had to smile. With this, he started strumming his guitar in a fast beat, bobbing his head up and down and tapping his foot in sync. Zoe’s eyes widened in surprise, then noticed that a crowd was starting to form around them, some couples even swaying with each other in an almost swing like dance.

  “See? The way that Katsuki and Marinette converse with each other is almost very…excitable,” Luka chuckled, seeing how Katsuki was exaggerating on his annoyance while Marinette teased him.

   Zoe looked at the duo, frowning, “They looked like they were arguing though?”

   “Nah, they were teasing each other. It may look like they hate each other, but that’s all in good fun. Like the melody I just played.” Luka shrugged, but then spotted someone else, “Oh, how about this tune?”

   Unlike his first music, he soon started playing a slow jam, almost as if it was made for some sort of waltz. Zoe raised a brow, looking at where Luka was looking at and saw that Shinso was leaning against a game stall while watching Rose trying to win a stuffed unicorn as her prize by throwing a ball at some pins. Juleka was coming their way as well, holding some snacks that she’s bought for them.

   “So, you can feel out people’s feelings and play it in a song?” Zoe concluded, but then frowned, “So why did you say that mine was strange? You can’t read my melody?”

   “It’s not that I couldn’t read your melody. It’s just that you won’t let anyone listen to it.” Luka stopped his music for a moment, then turned to look at Zoe, his eyes now serious, “What is there to hide, Zoe Lee?”

    The girl almost reeled back in surprise at the almost dark tone that Luka held in his voice, and his eyes staring at her is like staring into her very soul. And that caused her to get up and walk away quickly, Luka’s staring not letting up.

   “You’re a dangerous character, Luka Couffaine.”

   The blue haired musician chuckled, glancing over to Felix taking a seat where Zoe previously sat.

    “I could say that same about you, Fe. But what are your thoughts about Zoe?”

    Felix hummed, tapping his chin.

     “I don’t have much opinion on her, considering that I haven’t really engaged conversations with the girl. Actually, no one really has except for that Andy bloke.”

   Luka smiled, “He seems like a very social guy.”

    “A little too friendly of a socialite if I do say.” Felix countered, but the guitarist chuckled.

   “Are you suspicious of him?”

   “I’m surprised you aren’t.”

   Luka shrugged, “He’s harmless. I don’t consider him a danger to us, if that’s what you’re thinking?”

   Felix was quiet after that, but soon changed the subject, “Why are you not with your sister?”

   “Why are you not with Adrien?” Luka countered calmly, making Felix chuckle as well.

    “Adrien is a big boy, he could handle himself. He’s currently being dragged around by Nathaniel and Momo.”

   “The same with Juleka. I can trust her to take care of herself and besides, she’s with Hitoshi and Rose.”

   The British blond nodded his head, but then turned serious, “How are you feeling of having a Miraculous, Luka? Thoughts? Concerns?”

   “If you’re wondering how I’m adapting to becoming a hero, then I can honestly say that I am…a bit overwhelmed,” Luka replied with earnest, placing the guitar away for a moment when he felt Xuppu squirm under his jacket, “I don’t want to disappoint anyone. Especially Marinette.”

    “It seems you have a sort of fondness for her,” Felix observed, feeling Sass peeking out from his own breast pocket.

      Luka smiled, shaking his head.

     “Yes. But I do not want to burden her on my feelings. I know that our symphonies aren’t meant to sync together.”

   “You use a lot of music analogies, huh?”

    A shrug from Luka made Felix frown.

    “Although there is something that is bothering me.”

     Felix raised a brow, “What is it?”

    “Your melody. It is the same as Zoe’s. Lila’s too.”

     “Are you suggesting I’m hiding something?”

      Luka was once again silent, making Felix look at him in understanding.

   The two stayed quiet after that, just mostly watching their friends enjoy their time in the them park. The peace and quiet did not last, especially when there was a sound of something flying over them, and the two boys glanced up to see a large cart with a man riding on it coming their way.

   “I-Is it a bird?” Marinette’s voice sounded from nearby, Luka noticing that she and the rest of the gang were coming over to him and Felix.

    “Is it a plane?” Adrien chimed in as well, squinting his eyes at what was approaching.

    “Nah, that’s Hotdog Dan~” Andy appeared between the two, arms resting over their shoulders.

   They all watched the vendor machine land with a thud, a man dressed in a red shirt covered by his superhero bodysuit, that matched with his orange mask. He also had various cooking tools on his back and a black belt tied to his chest.

   “HEY HEY HEY! Hot-Dog Dan is here, so GET IN THE MOOD~! I'm the hero of picnics and tasty foods~!” The man bellowed in joy, taking out two spatulas and showing off some moves while making the hotdogs.

   In a flash, a crowd started to form around him, waving money and trying to reach out for the man’s hotdogs.

   “Hmm, usually he teams up with Ketchup Boy and Mustard Justice, buuuuut I suppose he really is patrolling solo tonight,” Liv pointed out with a grin, then looked to the Japanese and Parisian kids, “You should hurry if you wanna try one of his magic hot dogs~”

   “Ah, but money…” Marc pointed out, remembering that they never really exchanged their currencies just yet with Aizawa, Nighteye and Amelie, but he blinked when Chloe coughed.

  “Er, we have money~” She pointed towards a relaxed Todoroki, who was already holding out his wallet.

  “They’re not gonna accept cards, ya know.” Alix quirked a brow at the rich kids, but then blinked when suddenly Todorki approached Hotdog Dan, who immediately pulled out what seems to be a card-swiping machine, “Huh…guess you can.”

   “It shall be Endeavor’s treat.” Todoroki said with a small smirk, Hotdog Dan already prepping some hotdogs for them.

   “I-Isn’t your Dad, like, gonna get mad at ya for spending on us?” Nino asked warily, picking up a hotdog already sitting on the waiting line, then passing it on to the rest of them.

   “If he gets mad, I’m just gonna tell on him to Mom,” Todoroki pulled his phone out, “Chloe-san taught me how to place her on speed dial.”

   Marinette gave a look to Chloe, who gave a sharp smile cheekily.

   Once everyone had gotten their hotdogs, all of them took a bite to taste what was so magical about these treats. Nothing happened for a minute, but all of a sudden, Alix hiccuped and a burst of flames, shaping into a rainbow dragon flying around them. Marc’s skin turned fluorescent, almost looking like a glow stick with the shiny teal color, making Nathaniel and Alix laugh. It went on from Kirishima having superstrength like Rose, the two having a competition to who’s the strongest (Kirishima carrying a bench that seated Kagami, Lila and Holly while Rose carried a bench herself with one hand that held Izuku, Andy and Aster), to Sabrina having long hair like Rapunzel, hanging from a lamp post.

   When Rody and Fei took a bite of their food, however, they magically felt themselves being lifted off the ground. The two were floating higher and higher, Rody quickly grabbing Fei’s hand from flying far away from him like a balloon.

  “D-don’t be flying off like Mary Poppins now!” Rody joked, looking down and was amazed at seeing the sight below him, “Woah! I-I can’t believe I’m flying!”

   Pino chirped as she flew in between them, looking happy and so…free.

   Fei was glad that when she uses to Prodigious, she knew the feeling of flight pretty well and wasn’t too scared when they started floating like this.

  Marinette covered her mouth as she watched them, the magic of her having ice power diminished, “O-Oh! We should get them down!”

  “Ooooor, we can set the mood~” Izuku chirped, having wild flaming hair like Endeavor, and soon was pulling out his phone then moved towards Luka, “Hey, you mind playing this song?”

   Adrien peeked over Izuku’s shoulder, and blinked, “I…know this song?”

   Chloe also looked over, and snorted, “That’s the song I played during my birthday party last time!”

   “Romantic~” Rose cooed, then looked to Juleka and Shinso, “Right?”

   The two nodded, smiling at Rose before glancing at each other.

   Luka looked at the song Izuku was showing, smiling and nodding his head before sitting down on a bench, grabbing the guitar and started to strum. Once he got a melody down, he started playing the song, looking up at the sky to where Rody and Fei still were. At least they weren’t flying into the clouds and still seeable.

  Rody heard the music from down below, glancing down to see people pairing up to dance to the song. He raised a brow, spotting various pairs like Lila keeping real close to Izuku (who was looking sheepish but lead the dance anyways) to Marc just being passed around dancing partners from Alix, to Adrien and even to Felix of all people.

  “Seems like everyone’s having fun,” Fei hummed, also watching her friends having a good time, not noticing Rody staring at her.

   “Did you…wanna dance too?”

    Fei looked up for a moment, then blinked when Rody offered his hand to her with a smile.

    “Do you even know how to dance?” Fei asked teasingly, but took the hand as Rody ushered her close, his other hand going above her hip while he felt her hand onto his shoulder, “You don’t seem the type.”

   “Well, looks like you’re gonna see my skills right now then~” The brunet winked cheekily, before he soon let his body sway, leading the dance slowly to match with the tune.

   Fei couldn’t help but look amused, seeing how Rody was trying to be suave even though she saw Pino looking in deep concentration and somewhat nervous. She knew that Pino was Rody’s true feelings, but she didn’t mind.

    And so, she leaned her head onto his shoulder as they danced, missing how Rody almost went rigid while his cheeks turned bright red. Pino was trying to lower her loud chirping down by covering her beak with her wings, just as embarrassed as her owner was feeling. Rody looked at the top of Fei’s head in question, but he soon relaxed, pressing his cheek against her hair while closing his eyes and letting the music take them as they danced in the sky.

    Below them, Zoe watched them with a sad look in her eyes, her heart breaking the longer she stared at Rody dancing with that girl. No one even noticed her slipping away, walking down to where the boats were and went alone back to the city.

   “On this tour, you shall behave yourselves. Unlike last night, you’re gonna be kept under watch at all time. From now on, you’re gonna stay close and not sneak around without permission. Got me?”

     Aizawa stared at the teens before him with his angry glowing red eyes, arms folded and standing tall as if intimidating them. The teens looked sheepish, and even looked to Amelie for help, but she just shrugged and smiled in sympathy for them.

   Apparently after their night tour, they noticed Zoe was gone and soon were heading back to the city to look for her. Only to find out that the Heroez United had found them first and Zoe was with them. Andy, Liv, Mike, Holly and Aster had left as soon as All Might and them came into the picture, not wanting to be caught by the adults. The rest of the kids were grounded into their hotel rooms for the rest of their night.

    And so, today they were having a museum tour with Dean Gate, also known as the hero; Door Man.

    Jess, who was out of her hero persona for the day, had joined Aeon and Tokoyami together with Andy, Liv, Mike, Holly and Aster; the American teens trailing behind the tour group idly. But Jess also noticed that Zoe was here today as well.

   ‘Didn’t think the girl would go back alone last night and rat them out like that. She really isn’t liked at the moment.’ The Native American girl thought, noticing how the teens were not too happy with Zoe being here after tattling on them.

   Aizawa sighed, his hair soon flowing back down to his shoulders and eyes returned to normal. He turned to Dean Gate, who looked amused.

   “I leave it up to you now.”

   “Thanks Eraserhead~ So good to have some young fresh faces to share some history of New York and the background that made this country~” The glass eyed man chuckled, glancing over the kids and nodding his head, “Follow me~”

  Dean Gate lead them inside of the museum, starting off some fun facts about the founding fathers and even giving some small pop quizzes to those that were interested.

   Rody was about to follow after Fei when he felt a hand grab onto his. He looked over, and his smile turned into an annoyed frown when he saw it was Zoe.

   “Rody, please talk to me.” She begged, keeping her grip when Rody tried to shrug her off, “I’m not going to stop until we talk this out!”

   “Talk about what?! How you hurt me and messed up my whole family life?!” Rody hissed, wishing the others could turn their heads to notice them, “And there’s nothing to talk about. I don’t wanna interact with you as much as possible!”

   “Please.”

   Rody stopped his struggle and sighed, closing his eyes before looking around. He soon spotted an open door that led to another part of the museum, then turned to Zoe.

   “Fine. Let’s talk.”

    He soon led her into the room, not aware that Jess was watching them.

   “Hey,” She nudged Aeon, nodding her head to where Rody and Zoe disappeared off to, “Let’s go after them.”

    The African American girl looked perplexed, before giving a stern yet amused look to Jess.

    “…For someone who told me not to meddle on other people’s private lives, you seem really invested this time around?”

    Jess grinned saucily, “I smell drama~ And I’m gonna watch the drama unfold. LIVE~”

     Tokoyami heard the girls’ conversations, and looked at Jess disapprovingly.

     “We should not eavesdrop on people’s serious conversations to one another. It might be something we should not be listening on.”

   “Take a chill pill, Fumi~! This is why Hawks calls ya a chicken~” Jess teased, making chicken sounds while making her arms flap like chicken wings, which irked the bird headed hero quite a bit.

   Aeon giggled, but then turned serious, “Fumikage is right though, Jess. What if we heard something we are not supposed to hear?”

   “Then we keep the secrets to the grave~ As long as we don’t get caught~”

   Felix and Alix were in front of them, hearing everything before they turned towards the three.

   “Are you guys going to bother them?” The British blond asked, giving an ‘are you serious?’ look to especially Jess, who gave an innocent look that didn’t fool him for one bit.

   “You seriously wanna hear the FASCINATING story of Dean Gate’s love for the doors of the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower?” Jess asked, before she then smirked, “Besides~ don’t you wanna get a bit of vengeance towards that girl that got you all in trouble last night?”

   This perked Alix up as she smiled, “Like a prank?”

   Jess nodded, “Like a prank~”

   Felix sighed, but then shrugged, “…Fine. I mean it beats being bored to death.”

   “Someone say prank~?” Andy suddenly appeared beside Jess, waggling his brows, “Dude I live for pranks! Who are we pranking?”

   “Oh no, we’re lucky enough to be allowed on this tour after last night, you wanna cause more trouble?” Mike asked, while Liv agreed with him.

   “What are you guys up to?” Nino had popped up as well, followed by Kirishima and Kagami, “I heard something about a prank?”

   Tokoyami sighed, “I advise not to—“

   “Thought we’d teach Zoe Lee a lesson about being a snitch on ya guys~ She’s in another room with that Rody guy,” Jess interrupted, giving a cheeky smile, “Ya guys in?”

   Kirishima frowned, “Er, it’s not manly to play jokes on someone—“

   “Beats going around seeing ancient old stuff,” Kagami tugged at Kirishima’s hand, “What are we doing, anyways?”

   Jess smirked, liking Kagami already, “Alright~ Here’s the plan~”

  “Alright, you have me. Now what?”

    Zoe pursed her lips, almost irritated at the blasé attitude Rody was giving off to her, but decided it was better than blatantly ignoring her.

    She sighed tiredly, rubbing her arm awkwardly.

   “We haven’t seen each other in a long time, why are you being so cold to me?”

    Rody had to grab Pino from his shoulder, the bird squeaking angrily and the brunet hid her inside of his jacket.

   “Are you seriously asking me that question?”

    The blonde sighed, “Are you still angry about us fighting four years ago?”

   “Then you’re not as dumb as I thought.”

    Zoe groaned, rubbing the bridge of her nose.

   “Oh my gosh, Rody! Can’t we just forget the past and start over? What happened years ago…that was so long, I barely remember what we were fighting about.”

   Rody blinked slowly, then let out a huff of air in disbelief, “You…you don’t remember?”

   Zoe frowned, “I don’t…think I did anything to warrant this behaviour?”

   Rody chuckled, placing a hand over his eyes as he gave a snide grin, “Of course you wouldn’t. You still haven’t changed.”

   “What’s that supposed to mean?” The blonde asked, offended.

     Rody paused, now glancing over at his supposed old friend, then snorted.

    “Right…because Zoe Lee could never do no wrong, right? She’s Mr. Plastic’s daughter, a model student that knows heroes and has done many great things~”

      A gasp left the girl, staring at him before she huffed, “Rody—“

    “You can’t just expect me to just act like nothing happened four years ago! And don’t expect me to just erase all the feeling of hurt and trauma you caused, and pretend to be friends again,” Rody argued, his voice growing louder as he faced her properly, “Did you really think that you didn’t betray my trust back then?! That you stabbed me right in the back and calling me a liar?! You set your precious heroic dad on me for crimes my family didn’t commit! And most of all, you let Lila in your head and change you to this ugly person inside! You’ve become so horrible, that I bet after Lila abandoned you, no one wanted to be your friend because of all your lies!”

     As he kept talking, Zoe was moving back away from him, almost being cornered to a wall by the boy who continued on his tirade of everything he kept inside.

   “And let me guess? You don’t want anyone to know what I know. Let “bygones by bygones” because “what happened years ago was just us being kids“ am I right?!”

   “R-rody…you’re scaring me….”

    Rody snapped as he slammed a fist on the wall, almost near her head.

    “That’s exactly what Lila tried on me before she showed her true colours.“

    Zoe paled, staring at him incredulously while Rody stared back with contempt in his eyes, hovering over her.

   “Go on then. Show me your true colours.”

   Jess frowned when she peaked at the scanner on her sister’s wristwatch, showing the floating holo-screen of the CCTV inside the room they’ve hacked in.

   “What are they doing?” She asked, watching how Rody was yelling out at the blonde, now crying and shaking.

   Aeon, Tokoyami, Alix, Felix, Andy, Liv, Mike, Nino, Kirishima and Kagami were watching as well, confused looks on their faces. It was a shame there was no sound provided in the room.

  “I am not sure,” Aeon answered, her eyes glowing for a moment as she stared into the wall, “But my scanners show me that their stress levels are high enough to engage into the prank’s first stage.“

   “Okay, good. Let’s do this thing!” Jess grinned bringing out what seem to be silver boomerangs in the shape of birds.

 “What are those?” Alix asked, while the Native American girl winked.

  “Toys to help the prank move along~”

   Soon, the girl threw it near the switch that was in the other side of the room Rody and Zoe were in. Once it hit the switch, the lights turned off, and the doors automatically shut. Rody’s eyes widened as he looked around in the darkness, stopping his words and turned to the door. Both he and Zoe rushed towards it, banging and trying to get it open.

   “Er… t-they seemed scared, guys.” Nino murmured worriedly, still watching Aeon’s screen from her watch.

   “I told ya, we need them scared for this plan to work. That’s when we’ll go into phase two and get them squealing in no time~” Jess explained, tapping at Aeon’s shoulder with a nod of her head, “Aeon, your turn.”

   Aeon saluted happily, her forehead glowing as an eye appeared in the middle of it.

  “What the heck is with this door?!” Rody murmured, trying to kick at it while Pino was slamming her tiny body onto it with Zoe also trying to push at it with her shoulder.

  “I-I don’t know! How should I know?” Zoe grumbled, feeling exasperated and fearful at the same time.

   Rody turned to almost yell at her, but then heard Pino let out a scared, high pitched squeal as she pointed at something behind them. The two teens turned, looking back and eyes widening at seeing a shadowy monster like figure appear, raising it’s hook like hand while staring at them with bright white glowing eyes and mouth.

   “I am Solitude~ I am here to take captive of those loved by no one~”

    Rody stared for a moment, squinting his eyes before his ear drums burst at the sound of Zoe screaming bloody murder, slamming herself onto the door more desperately.

  “My god, she looks like she actually pee on herself!” Alix snickered for a moment, Jess and Andy joining her while the others looked unamused.

   “Is…this really how friends prank one another?” Kagami asked slowly, arms folded and watching the screen as the “hologram” Aeon programmed going towards them.

    “No. This is just straight up being mean,” Liv said disapprovingly, looking at her brother with a frown.

   “Guys, this isn’t funny anymore. Let’s just let them out now—“

   “What are you guys doing?!”

     Kirishima’s words were interrupted with Marinette standing there with a disappointed Adrien, a curious Izuku, a bored Bakugo and both Holly and Aster following behind them.

   “N-Nette!” Nino stood up immediately along with Mike and Tokoyami looking guilty, while the rest of them were still kneeling on the floor around Aeon, “We can explain—“

   “These guys wanted to prank Zoe Lee,” Felix said bluntly, shrugging his shoulders when everyone looked at him, “What? Was that supposed to be a secret?”

  “A prank?” Adrien repeated, looking appalled, “What for?”

   Holly gasped, looking at Aeon’s screen, “What….?”

   Marinette raised a brow, then looked the screen before her and gasped.

   “You call this a prank!? That poor girl looks like she’s gonna go into cardiac arrest!”

   “Aw lighten up, it’s only for a bit of fun,~ Jess assured the girl, shrugging, “Besides, wasn’t this the same girl that stabbed ya guys in the back yesterday for telling the adults of you all sneaking off?”

   “She has a point. Kinda wanted to get back at her for that,” Alix said honestly, while Izuku shook his head.

   “They don’t look like they’re laughing though?” Aster pointed out, seeing Rody trying to calm Zoe down, who was sobbing hard and yelling that she wanted to go home.

   Alix started to look guilty now,  tilting her head down with her cap, “…Aw geez…”

   Andy scratched the back of his head, “I think we’ve gone too far…”

   “Unlock the door and let them out,” Marinette demanded, tapping her foot like a scolding mother with her hands on her hips.

    Aeon was about to do so, but then the lights turned off above them, the power instantly going out.

    Marinette didn’t look amused, “Another one of your pranks?”

  “This is not my doing.” Aeon said with fright now, all the teens now on high alert.

   This caused her illusion of Solitude to vanish, making Rody and Zoe confused.

   Bakugo and Izuku instantly were on guard, looking around while the rest of them were wondering what was going on. Thumping noises were heard from inside the room where Rody and Zoe were in, catching everyone’s attention.

   “Break down the door!” Marinette shoulder, already touching at her earrings that she’s gotten back from Bakugo, “NOW!”

   Rody heard the thumping sounds, looking up at the ceiling before he turned to Zoe and pushed her back. The two managed to move out the way when the ceiling suddenly collapsed, debris falling around them.

    At the opening of the ceiling, there was a strange man, jumping into the room and landing with a loud thud. The man had a mohawk of light cerulean hair and matching eyebrows, and his sclera are dark cornflower blue with light cyan irises. His body was a moderate sapphire blue with light cerulean circuit board patterns and accents running across him. He was dressed in an azureish white bodysuit, and from the center of his lower back extend four long mechanical arms with blue accents. At the end of each arm are two sets of four sharp claws. He seemed to be wearing some sort of cuffs with the number 239 on his chest.

    Bellowing a laugh to himself, the monster was reaching his long extended claw arms to some canons on display nearby, and once they touched it, the claws turned into canons as well.

   Rody squinted his eyes, tilting his head, “He…looks familiar.”

   “He looks like Techno Pirate. But different.”

    Rody looked at Zoe strangely, before she sighed.

   “He’s a super villain? Enemy to the United Heroez?”

   “Don’t know him, don’t care.” Rody stood up, grabbing for Zoe, ”But we should get out of here!”

   Suddenly, another explosion happened right beside them, readied teen heroes crashing into the room.

    Sparrow was the first to yelp in surprise, “Techno Pirate?! He escaped?!”

    Uncanny Valley’s eyes started to glow, staring at the villain for a moment before frowning.

   Tokoyami noticed, “What is wrong?”

    “He seems more powerful, but I can’t read him fully as if…” She gasped, looking to the bird headed hero now with wide eyes, “Magic is interfering with my scanning tool!”

    “Then that’s our cue~” Ladybug shouted, already throwing her yo-yo to stop the villain in his tracks, “Dyna-Cat! Use your power!”

   “DON’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!” The cat user yelled, jumping into the fray to reach his hand out to use his ability, but was grabbed around the waist by the villain’s mechanical arm, and was thrown into the wall.

   “I do not have time to deal with you kids! I, Techlonizer, am here for one thing only!”

   Rody was looking where the man was looking at, and soon realised he was looking at the display that was right next to him. Inside seemed to be a sword of some kind along with a suit and…a necklace?

   “RODY, DUCK!” Deku yelled, already pulling Zoe out of the way and trying to reach out for the brunet.

   The three of them moved out of the way in time as Techlonizer shot his canon at the display case, shattering the glass around it.

    Dragon Knight jumped in front of it along with Feathertop, the two soon charging at the villain with their weapons. Sparrow, Rockershella and Onagadori assisted them, despite being knocked around by the man’s metal arms, making it impossible for them to get close.

   “He’s gotta be Akumatized right?” Trickster Tails asked, watching Neim and Pixie Girl distract the villain while the Ghost Force tried to stop the waving mechanical arms trying to hit them.

   Ladybug pursed her lips, looking at her yo-yo and debating to use her Lucky Charm.

  “Hey! I thought your thing was modern technology?” Sparrow’s voice sounded mocking to Techlonizer, ducking away from the hit from the canons while Uncanny Valley flew over the man.

     “What do you plan to use the Saber for? Maybe an antennae?” The robotic girl tried to say as well, watching how Techlonizer grabbed for the sword from the broken display case with one of his arms.

  Tokoyami was about to use Dark Shadow to ambush the now distracted Techlonizer, but something caught his eye. Raising a brow, he soon picked it up and saw it was a talon pendant. He didn’t know why, but he felt inclined to keep it. Thus, he pocketed it inside his cape.

   “Someone call Doorman and Eraserhead! Tell them to evacuate everyone out of the building and bring the rest of the team here!” Deku yelled, trying to Techlonizer outside of the museum rather than destroy the inside of it more.

   “I’ll go!” Krush yelled, the blue ghost hero soon flying off while his teammates helped the team out.

   Out of nowhere, a yelp was heard and Uncanny was caught by one of Techlonizer’s claws, grabbing her ankle and pulling her towards him. The robotic like heroine struggled against his hold, suddenly wires were coming off of the claws and attaching to her metallic armoury as if—

   “It’s sucking the tech off of her!” Sparrow yelled, trying to get to Uncanny but was easily knocked away by a canon, Sparrow’s body hitting the wall hard.

   “YOUR POWERS WILL BE MINE!” Techlonizer cackled, soon throwing  Uncanny Valley towards the other heroes, knocking them over.

   “LUCKY CHARM!” Ladybug yelled, throwing her yo-yo in the air and letting her magical ladybugs create her object to stop the villain.

   However, color her surprised that a spotted bicycle pump fell into her hands instead.

   “What are you going to do with that?” Dragon Knight asked, the dragon hero raising a brow when he landed next to her.

   Izuku paused, looking over for a moment as his eyes gleamed for a second. Almost as if he was using his own intuition right there like how the other Miraculous users do.

   “Ladybug—“

   Techlonizer cackled once more, suddenly glowing purple eyes appeared around his body.

   “NOBODY ESCAPES MY SIGHTS~”

    Uncanny was helped up by Tokoyami, and the girl was about to use her own lasers while Rockershella used his shield to cover them, but realised she couldn’t.

   “W-what?” She touched her forehead, not feeling her laser eye and gasped.

   “Uncanny-san—“ The bird hero pulled her close, using Dark Shadow to deflect the lasers away from them, “Stay low for now.”

   “Why the hell is one guy too strong for all of us?!” Feathertop yelled, avoiding being swatted away by the metal arms while both Onagadori and Dyna-cat tried to hold him down.

   “It’s over Techno-Pirate! We’ve got you and there’s no where to run!” Sparrow yelled, the other heroes gathering around the villain.

    “Did anyone call the United Heroez?” Neim asked.

    A chuckle came from the villain, shaking his head.

   “Why run~? When I can take my revenge on the United Heroez by destroying their beloved kid heroes~?”

   The metal arms started moving again, everyone trying to avoid the hits and the firing of the canons.

    “Doorman and Eraserhead should be—“

    The Sorcerer was interrupted by a frustrated Dyna-Cat.

   “ARGH! SCREW THIS! CATACLYSM!”

    Deku’s eyes widened, rushing to stop him.

   “DNYA-CAT, NO!”

    Techlonizer smirked, grabbing the wrist of the Cat Hero, throwing him to where Zoe was standing. Zoe’s eyes widened, and so were everyone else’s as they watched in horror of a panicked Dyna-Cat heading towards her.

   “ZOE!”

   Rody suddenly pushed the blonde out of the way, feeling Dyna-Cat’s palm make a connection to his arm, making him yell out in agony. Ladybug felt herself almost faint at the sight of Rody’s arm starting to blacken, slowly turning into ashes as the Cataclysm travelled up to Rody’s shoulder and almost half of his body.

    Deku felt his head spin. This wasn’t supposed to happen.

   Techlonizer grinned, seeing the teen heroes frozen, and knowing this was his chance to escape—

   “NOOOOOOO!”

    A girl’s screaming turned into a dragon’s loud roar, Lady Dragon charging her way in like it was a bloody warpath, grabbing the villain by her teeth and soaring up the ceiling.

   Rody crumbled to the ground, slowly feeling his body collapse in on himself while slowly turning into ashes.

   “R-Rody!”

   Deku slid to his side, Zoe snapping out of her shock and rushing to his side as well.

   The green haired hero looked up at Ladybug and shouted to get her attention.

    “USE THE SPELL!”

    Snapping out of her daze, Ladybug was quick to use Miraculous Ladybug to fix the damage, including getting Rody back to normal. But that didn’t stop Rody gasping for air, screaming out and his body went into shock, convulsing and limbs flailing.

  “He’s having a seizure!” Neim yelled, already rushing forward, “We must get an ambulance!”

  “Kids! Over here!” Doorman yelled, rushing in with Eraserhead and Amelie as the man soon slammed the door and opened it again to create a portal, “This will take your back to the hotel! The others are there, hurry!”

   “But—“

   “We’ll get the villain. Right now, you listen to the adults and go. Now.” Eraserhead sternly told Ladybug, his eyes glowing red and adjusting his goggles.

   Ladybug wanted to protest some more, but knew that Rody needed the hospital now. Nodding her head, she soon rushed with her team into the portal, trusting the adults to handle things for now.

   Amelie was activating her wristband, already having her laser set and placed her own goggles over her eyes, “You think that Hawkmoth is back?”

   “Doubt it. Someone else is pulling the reigns here,” Eraserhead murmured as he felt Deku pass him, being the last kid to rush into Doorman’s portal.

   Doorman closed the door once all the kids were gone and stepped with the two, “So let’s get that villain back before that girl kills him.”

   Eraserhead mentally agreed, soon the three racing to catch up with Lady Dragon, not even realising that a shadowy figure with a butterfly on their shoulder was watching them carefully. Although they vanished with an annoyed huff, noticing that the true object they was looking for was gone.

   Deku skidded to a halt as he looked around the lobby of the hotel, noticing all the Miraculous heroes he was with (including the Ghost Force, Pixie Girl and the Sorcerer), were powered down and now surrounding a choked up Rody.

   Nino was seen at the side talking to the lady at the front desk while Adrien was dialling for an ambulance, probably being told they were on the way.

   “Rody, oh god, you saved me!” Zoe sobbed over the shaking boy, placing her hands over her face, “I-I can’t believe it—“

   “Move it! Give him some space!” Chloe yelled, shoving her sister away while Todoroki assisted Aster from Rody’s spasms.

  Luckily, Hitoshi seemed to be knowledgable into paramedic procedures, and was mostly the one using his quirk to stop Rody’s panicked induced flailing and place him to sleep.

   With that, everyone relaxed. Well, except for Marinette.

    Sabrina and Rose were comforting here as she seemed to be having a silent panic attack herself, tears in her eyes and looking like she wanted to be sick.

   Bakugo wasn’t looking too good as well, considering he was sitting in a corner by himself, hands over his head.

   Deku pursed his lips, approaching his childhood friend.

  “Kacchan…I—”

  “Don’t.”

  “B-But—“

   “I don’t want to talk to anyone at the moment. Especially to you. Leave me the hell alone for one god damn second.”

    The green haired boy backed up with a gulp, nodding his head in understanding and stepping away from his sullen friend.  

    Alix walked over to Izuku, touching his arm, “You okay?”

   Izuku shook his head, “W-we almost got someone killed. I…I should’ve seen this coming but I didn’t…”

   The skater girl didn’t know what to say to that, just opting to keep quiet for now.

   Adrien was glad that the paramedics came on time, already taking Rody away and heading to the hospital. He paused, looking towards a slumped Marinette on the lobby sofas by herself (since it seemed she wanted to be left alone), and went to sit next to her.

   “Bug? You okay?” He asked, Marinette looking up at him with sorrowful eyes, “Oh Marinette…”

  “I…I never thought I…I-I was so scared we might’ve gotten someone killed, Adrien!”

   Adrien pulled her close, hushing her, “W-well I never expected anyone to be Cataclysm’d like that. That’s never happened before. But at least you’ve healed him with your spell.”

   “Actually, there are multiple universes where someone had been Cataclysm’d.”

   The two looked to Deku and Shinso approaching them, the green haired male looking forlorn while Shinso looked miffed.

   “There were a few that Adrien himself got Cataclysm’d. Some others were you, or Hawkmoth or…” Izuku glanced over at Aeon, who was being looked over by Jess and Tokoyami.

   Shinso sighed, “This is why I didn’t want Bakugo to be the Cat Holder. He’s too reckless.”

   “This I can agree on,” Adrien nodded, frowning, “Why do I still have the Dragon Miraculous when I could just be Cat Walker again? Why can’t all of us get back our Miraculous anyway?”

   Izuku sighed, “It is complicated to explain it all right now. But it is necessary.”

   Marinette wasn’t surprised with the boy hiding stuff from them anymore.

   “There’s still one thing though.”

    The boys looked to Marinette for a moment, as Marinette squeaked in between silent sobs again.

   “S-since I did my spell without de-akumatizing that villain…that man is still running around…a-and it’s my fault.”

   “That’s not your fault, Bug.” Adrien shook his head, while Izuku and Shinso were silent.

   An hour later, the doors of the hotel opened, revealing a tired looking Aizawa and Amelie escorting an angry looking Fei. She looked worse for wear, especially when she was covered in dark substance on her clothes, hair and face.

  “W-what happened?” Momo asked, aghast at her friend’s appearance, who seemed to be in her thoughts with how quiet she was.

   “The villain escaped. But not unscathed, might I add.” Aizawa glanced at Fei, raising a brow, “You’re lucky he was made from the magic from the Akuma and that armour of his. Otherwise he’d be dead by your claws and teeth with how many animals you’ve transformed into.”

   “He got away because of you intervening.” Fei grumbled.

    Aizawa closed his eyes.

   “He could’ve been killed. And I’m not about to have a young child be prisoned for manslaughter. What would Nighteye think?”

   “Enough.” Amelie got in between them, then spotted Master Fu coming their way, “Perhaps with everything going on, we should proceed quicker going to Japan. All Might and Victory are already preparing for departure via Doorman.”

   “W-what about Rody?” Marinette breathed out, while Rose, Juleka and Alix were escorting Fei into their room to get her cleaned up.

    “Once the doctor gives us the verdict of Rody’s condition, we shall bring him straight to the U.A. Dorms and let him recover with Recovery Girl,” Aizawa explained, but shook his head, “Meanwhile, I should alert Majestia, Knight Owl and the rest that Techlonizer is still at large.”

   “But we can help—“ Adrien breathed out, but was surprised when Amelie shook her head, “Mom—“

   “Adrien, sweetie. We almost lost one of you today. What if Ladybug’s spell did not work and Rody had disappeared?”

    The blond shut up after that, his eyes troubled at the thought.

    “This is not open for discussion. You kids are going to U.A. immediately while the adults stay behind to fix this mess.”

   “YOU can’t capture an Akuma without me.” Marinette argued, narrowing her eyes up at Aizawa, who glared back.

    Master Fu interrupted this time, “My friend, Marinette is correct. Therefore, why not let only a few heroes stay. The rest can leave.”

    “No.”

    Chloe stepped forward with Todoroki.

    “We’re not leaving.” The fire and ice quirked hero said along with the blonde, the other teens listening in.

    Nino nodded in agreement, also appearing by their side.

   “That’s right! We’re a team! And if one has to fight, we all are fighting!”

    Adrien smiled at them, but then glanced at Amelie, who was looking worried.

   “Mom?”

    Felix slid up next to Amelie as well, touching her hand.

   “I know that it would not be right to leave anyone behind when there is a villain on the loose. And it is our job as heroes to take them down, correct?”

   Amelie looked like she wanted to agree with them, but then shook her head.

   “I’m sorry, children.”

   Master Fu hummed, closing his eyes, “Then, I shall take responsibility. For at least just Ladybug and a Cat hero. They are needed to capture and purify the Akuma.”

   Aizawa and Amelie looked at each other, the erasure quirked hero then sighed.

   “Fine.”

   Once Fei was cleaned up, Rose, Juleka and Alix sat on their beds while watching the Chinese girl pace up and down the room. They knew that Fei was worried about Rody, and so were they. Especially with what almost happened.

   “I have to see Rody and make sure he is okay. I don’t feel right leaving him alone.” Fei murmured, looking at the Renlings floating above her friends with equally worried looks, “I’m going back for him.”

  “Woah, woah! W-wait, hold on a minute. Are you telling me we’re sneaking out? Again?” Alix breathed out, before grinning, “Because I am in!”

    “W-what? Sneaking out?” Rose looked worried, feeling Fluff nuzzling into her hair, “D-do you think we really should?”

   Juleka looked thoughtful for a moment, Mullo resting on her lap, and the usually quiet girl nodded her head, “We don’t abandon our own.”

   Rose looked at the girl carefully, before smiling brightly, nodding her head.

    “You’re right, Jules! He’s our friend, and we should go to him. O-Or at least see if he’s okay.”

    Fei smiled at her roommates and friends, but then her smile fell.

    “Oh, b-but I do not know which hospital he is in.”

    “Oh, no problem! I got that covered,” Alix brought her phone up, and soon started texting quickly, “I’ll ask Adrien where the ambulance took him and we’ll go from there.”

   Juleka murmured something worriedly, while Rose agreed.

   “Juleka has a point. What should we do if we’re caught sneaking out by Monsieur Aizawa or Madame Amelie?” The blonde asked, tapping her chin.

   “Or worse, if the others find out and want to come with us.” Fei added, while the three girls looked at her.

    “You don’t want the others to know?” Rose asked.

    Fei shook her head, “Better to have small numbers checking up on Rody rather than all of us. Don’t want to get everyone in trouble again.”

   “That’s a good point,” Alix soon felt her phone ping, and smiled, “Adrien gave us the hospital name. Now we just have to Moogle Map it and we’ll head out.”

    “But how will we sneak out?” Rose asked, raising a hand up.

     Fei and Alix looked each other for a moment, then grinned simultaneously.

     “We might have something in mind. Just follow our lead~”

    Juleka and Rose confusingly looked at Alix, then looked to Fei to see if she knew what she was talking about. Only to be even more concerned when Fei just winked.

    A knock on the door sounded, the four girls jumped and suddenly quietened down. Alix got up, peeking in the peep hole to check see who was on the other side. Sighing, she opened the door to reveal Adrien and Shinso.

   “Just wanted to check up on you guys. Everyone else went back into their rooms,” Adrien explained, the blond glancing over at Fei, “I-Is everyone okay?”

   “We’re okay for the most part,” Rose said honestly, smiling softly when Shinso came over and sat next to her, “What about you boys?”

   “Kinda reeling about what happened today. Especially with Rody.” Adrien replied, although he glanced at Alix and Fei, before looking back at Rose, “Alix mentioned she wanted to know where Rody’s hospital is. Is there something we should know about?”

  “Just wanted to make sure where if we’re gonna see him sometime eh? Especially since the adults and Fei are worried about him,” Alix said easily, although Shinso had to narrow his eyes at her.

   “You sure?”

    Alix stared at him, raising a brow, “Ya got something to say?”

    Shinso returned the gaze blankly, and soon glanced at both Rose and Juleka. He quirked a brow at them silently, Rose giving a cute smile while Juleka gave a single nod.

    He sighed, raising his hands up as he leaned back, “Then, I won’t say anything more.”

    Adrien narrowed his eyes at the both of them for a moment, but then blinked when Shinso stood up, kissing Rose’s cheek and then patted Juleka’s head affectionately. The purple haired male then grabbed the back of Adrien’s collar as he walked past him, already heading out the door.

   Once they were gone, both Alix and Fei looked to Rose.

   “Okay, he let that go way too easy.” Alix murmured, while Rose giggled softly.

   “He knows to trust us with what we need to do.”

   Fei tilted her head, “He trusts you a lot, doesn’t he?”

   “He trusts both of us,” Rose gestured to herself and Juleka, who smiled weakly.

   “Great! So we go with the plan! We find Rody!” Alix said quietly, already hearing Aizawa down the hall and knocking on doors, yelling out that it was lights out.

  The four girls soon got into their beds, knowing that the door was going to open and Amelie was going to check on them. And it happened, the blonde woman peeking in after knocking and announcing herself, checking over the beds to see if they were asleep in bed. All four girls pretended to sleep, but soon sat up once Amelie was gone and locked the door.

   “It’s a good thing that we have our Miraculous in hand,” Alix breathed out, already fiddling with her necklace and grinned, feeling Trixx appearing before her, “Alrighty my foxy friend~ Time to get to work.”

    Silver grey eyes fluttered open slightly, a groan escaping the other as he stretched his body some. Rody blinked his eyes to clear his vision slightly, knowing his head spinning to the point of nausea.

     ‘W-where am I…?’ The brunet thought while he touched the back of his head, blinking as he realised that his hair tie was removed, along with his headband and sunglasses.

    He relaxed when he heard the familiar chirping sounded above his head with the frantic flapping of wings, Rody spotting Pino with a small smile and held his hand out.

   “Hey there, girl. You doing okay?” Rody hummed, feeling Pino landing on his palm and nuzzling into his hand in relief, “I’m okay. Question now is, where is everyone?”

   The boy took this time to look around, wondering exactly where they were and why it seemed so…quiet.

   He didn’t like it at all.

   “Looks like we’re in some sort of hospital. If that’s the case, there should be noises like nurses running up and down the hall and intercom announcements…” Rody murmured to himself, Pino landing on his shoulder while the boy was getting off the bed.

   He hobbled towards a mirror, noticing that he was still in his normal clothes, just that his jacket was missing. If he was in a real hospital, he would’ve been at least in some sort of hospital gown. But no.

    As he was starting to remember what happened to him before he passed out, he had to lift his sleeve up to peek at his arm, horrified at seeing that the skin almost blacken like coal. Almost in the shape of a gloved hand pressed where Dyna-Cat aimed at. This didn’t look good.

   Taking a glance at the door once the shock worn off, he soon walked towards it, opening the door to peek outside. As he suspected, there was no sign of life and the hallways of this so called hospital was dark. Grabbing his jacket and placing his shoes along with everything else back on, Rody stepped into the hallway, noticing how cold it was. It was a good thing that Rody had good sight even in the dark. But he was even more surprised that somehow his sight was more night vision like than normal. Which, to be fair, wasn’t normal at all.

   A meowing sound was heard near his feet, and Rody almost jumped while looking down to see what made that noise, perplexed on seeing a cute black kitten with bright glowing green eyes.

    Wait, glowing?

   “Er, w-where did you come from little one?”

   Rody crouched down to the kitten, who tilted it’s tiny head to the side while looking curiously up at him. The brunet smiled as he was about to reach to touch the creature, but then paused as it started meowing at him again. As he listened to it, his eyes widen in realisation. He was silent for a moment as the cat continued to stare, and the boy finally spoke.

  “I…can understand you? How?” Rody looked to Pino, surprised when the bird was flying to land in front of the kitten, chirping to the creature as the kitten meowed back to her.

   Before Rody could question anything, he heard a thump sounding somewhere down the hall, making him and his companions freeze. Gently picking up the kitten, he soon placed them gently into the inside of his jacket pocket, while Pino hid herself on top of his head. Walking down the hallways quietly, Rody made sure to not let his footsteps be noticeable if there was actually someone on this floor of…well, wherever he was.

    He heard another thump again, and then another one after a few seconds almost as if something was banging itself on a hard surface. Maybe it was someone that was trapped inside a room?

  This caused Rody to check where the sound was coming from, the sound growing louder as he was nearing to the door that was right next to an elevator. Usually, Rody was a cautious kind of person, always someone that thought before acting out on anything. But somehow he just ended up reaching for the doorhandles and jiggle it, noticing it was locked.

   “Huh…wonder why this one is locked…?” Rody hummed, tapping his chin as he heard meowing once more from his pocket.

  The little one was poking it’s tiny head out, trying to claw their way up to Rody’s shoulder. Helping the little thing out, he rested the creature onto his shoulder, glad that it’s claws could hang onto the fabric of his coat.

    “Should I kick the door down?” Rody said out loud, hearing the thumping suddenly stop.

    The kitten purred at him, and Rody snorted.

   “Ya know,” He murmured, as he touched the door in front of him, “This would be so much easier if I did what that Cat Guy did to me…—“

    “Is someone out there?”

    A gruff voice was heard from the other side of the door.

    Rody almost jumped back in surprise at the voice, but then was leaning into the door and called out, “U-Um! Are you okay in there?”

   “Who are you? What are you doing here?”

    The voice sounded like a male and was wary, as if suspicious of Rody. Not that the boy could blame him anyways.

    “D-do you need help? Lemme get this door open…” Rody was reaching into his jacket pocket, thankful to have a hairpin on him.

    He was also glad he had skills to unlock doors during his pick pocketing and thieving days, that he easily unlocked the door and opened it. Inside was an old Native American man with a strong jaw, a big nose, and noticeable wrinkles. He has long gray hair (almost hiding the white big earrings he had) big bushy gray eyebrows, and a mole under his left eye. The attire sort of caught Rody off guard, as the man was wearing dirty-red tunic with black rims and a symbol on the front, a black belt wrapped around his waist, and a pair of dirty-light green shorts. He has black tape wrapped around his lower legs and wears a pair of elf shoes with soles partially broken off.

   Somehow he had the aura of that old guy, Master Fu.

   “Er, a-are you okay, Mister?” Rody asked, noticing the man was tied up somehow with chains, and the man had to glare at Rody.

  “…You are a child?” The man asked in frustrated confusion.

  Rody took offense to that.

   “I’m not a child. I’m practically an adult.” Rody pointed a finger at himself with a grin.

   The man quirked a brow.

   “How old are you then, boy?”

   “Sixteen.”

   “Still a child.”

    The former thief rolled his eyes, “If you don’t want my help? Fine. I’ll get myself out of here since I know clearly this ain’t some hospital and some sort of weird prison—“

   Rody was about to turn around and leave but blinked when something landed on his nose.

    A…ladybug?

   “W-where did ya come from?” Instead of shooing it away from his nose, he raised a finger up, letting the little creature land on the tip of his finger instead, fluttering it’s wings gently before closing up again.

   The cat on his shoulder meowed at the new creature, the ladybug seemed to be buzzing in reply back.

   The man stared at this scene for a moment, then closed his eyes as he relaxed. “You have been touched by the Miraculous of the Ladybug and Cat…from the Chinese box I assume?”

   Rody perked up at the name of Miraculous, and then blinked.

  “You…know about them? Wait—“ Rody recalled Fei talking about possible Guardians of other boxes around the world, then looked to the man again, “Are you…a Guardian? And do you have a Miracle Box?”

   Now this caused the old man to look at him wide eyed, impressed.

   “Are you perhaps a Holder?”

   “Er, w-well I’ve dabbled with two Miraculous once. At the same time,” Rody was still remembering how it was both cool and nerve-racking being Spotted Hood.

   “And you are not now?”

   “Actually I know a few people, and some that are going to be Guardians—wait wait,” Rody paused at his geeking out as he turned serious, “If you’re a Guardian that means…where is your Miracle Box? And why are you tied up?”

   The old man sighed, “It was taken from me. From some villains that wish to make use of it. I am on a mission to find the Eagle Miraculous that was located around here, but I was ambushed by a strange villain that seemed to be under a negative influence. I am assuming a Miraculous was caught into the wrong hands and is being used for evil purposes.”

   Rody pursed his lips, “Y-Yeah, it is. B-but we’ve got good guys trying to stop these bad guys and get back that particular Miraculous! I don’t know much of the details, but if we get ya out of here, I can take ya to them. I know there are two people that are from here looking for someone like you. They’re Miraculous holders locally.”

   The man hummed, closing his eyes and sighing, “Very well. But how will you free me?”

   Rody grinned, already pulling out his Swiss army knife from his coat pocket, “Not a problem~”

  “I’m sorry. But visiting hours are over and there is no Rody Soul as a patient here. Perhaps you should re-check where your little friend might be. Have a nice night~”

   The four girls walked out of the hospital with frowns on their faces, Alix the first to speak up.

   “This is weird. Adrien was sure this is the hospital Rody was checked in.”

   “Not to mention that nurse seemed highly nervous when we mentioned his name,” Fei agreed, folding her arms with a look of suspicion, “If he’s not kept in a private room of this hospital, he must be somewhere else. But where?”

   “Let’s double check anyways in case he is here and that chick at front desk was lying,” Alix looked to Juleka, “Guess it’s your time to shine, Jules.”

  Juleka nodded her head, smiling softly as she looked to Mullo resting on her shoulder.

  The Mouse Kwami squeaked, “Let’s do it Jul-Jul~”

  Juleka smiled, as she touched the pendant around her neck, “Mullo, Get Squeaky~”

   Mullo giggled as they were sucked into the Miraculous, Juleka transforming into Whisketeer in a flash. The Mouse Heroine soon called out ‘Multitude’ and slowly started shrinking with multiple tiny mice were near the girls’ feet.

  Alix soon called for Trixx as she transformed into Trickster Tails, using her flute to cover them (especially the tiny Whiskteers) and found a lone window close to them. Trickster Tails opened the window, letting the tiny Whisketeers jump in and explore around the building.

   It was then after a few minutes, one of the Whiskerteers popped back out to the other girls, looking frantic.

  “We’ve checked all the floors. But there is one place that we can’t seem to get into,” The tiny Whisketeer said softly, Rose letting the little hero rest in her hands.

    “Where, Jules?” The blonde asked.

    Whisketeer bit her lower lip, before murmuring quietly, “Morgue.”

   Fei’s face paled but Trickster Tails nudged her from thinking darker thoughts.

   “Then that’s where we’ll check. Rose. Fei. Better power up if we’re gonna face anything.”

   The man raised a brow as he watched Rody skilfully unlock all the padlocks that tied the man down, considering that he was chained rather than roped.

   “You seem to be very good at unlocking things…”

   Rody chuckled, giving a sheepish smile, “Yeah, well, when you’ve lived the life I have…you tend to learn a few tricks in the streets to survive.”

   The man softened, almost looking in pity, “Where are your parents? Do you not have family?”

  Rody looked calm as he was asked this, already unlocking the last one and watching the heavy chains fall off the man.

  “Dad ran off on us. Mum died when my little sister was born. Now, I just take care of her and my little brother. But enough about me, let’s get ya out of here…er, I never got your name?”

   “I am Pala. Guardian of the Southern Miracle Box and Keeper of the Miraculous within.” The man introduced himself, bowing his head.

    “Rody Soul. Er, Guardian of these guys,” He gestured to Pino, and then to the strange Ladybug that was resting on his hair like some sort of accessory and the kitten resting on his shoulder lazily, “The Ladybug and Cat are kinda new since I’ve just met them today.”

   “So you must know the holders of the Ladybug and Cat Miraculous?”

    “Ladybug, yes. Cat…kinda gets thrown around owners…”

    Pala had to frown at this. Although he wanted to say more, he knew that there was no time for that. He was looking around for a moment, now growing a worried expression on his wrinkled face. Rody noticed and asked what was he looking for.

  “My staff. It seems that the villains have taken it as well.”

  “Well, is it important?”

   “Very. Alongside the Miracle Box since it is basically not just a key to it, but in fact, very much a way of tracking other Miraculous in the area.”

    Rody’s eyes widened, turning panicked, “W-well then we gotta find it, c’mon!”

   Soon, the two were racing out of the room but stopped when a group of strange people appeared before them. Rody’s eyes widened, seeing that one of these people were basically a beast like werewolf or something. The rest was some dude that was mummified with red cloth, a woman with long red hair in a domino mask and a silver haired armoured man with glowing golden eyes.

   “Get behind me!” Pala stood in front of Rody, already readying himself to fight.

   “The old man escaped huh? And the brat is awake.” The mummy like man snorted, pulling out his katana and looked at the armoured man, “Nine, what should we do?”

   The one named Nine sighed, glancing at the woman beside him, “Slice?”

  “The higher ups want the man alive…the boy though?” The woman licked her lips, as her eyes glinted with evil intent, “Is ours for the taking. You think he has it?”

   “I can feel it…The Type B inside this one…“

  The werewolf like beast chuckled darkly, already readying his claws up, “Well then, what are we waiting for? Let’s grab ‘em—”

   “You are not getting this child!” Pala yelled, rushing to attack them head on.

   “As if you haven’t learn from the first time, old man. Chimera, let’s grab him!” The Mummy Man yelled, already racing to take the Native American down.

  Rody was backing away when the man, Nine, was already walking towards him with glowing eyes, almost hungrily staring him down.

   “Don’t worry~ I won’t kill you~”

   Slice giggled darkly, as suddenly her hair extended and grabbed for Rody’s wrist and ankles, keeping him still from escaping. Nine tilted his head as he was close, grabbing for the boy’s face and staring at him intently.

  “But…I will take your quirk…”

   Rody squirmed, feeling something sucking his very being away, almost the same feeling when Dyna-Cat Cataclysm’d him, but it felt slow and torturous. Rody was opening his mouth, wanting to scream but nothing was coming out.

   “BURROW!”

    Nine narrowed his eyes as he and Slice moved out of the way from a dragon made from fire appeared, as Bonnie Blanche appeared along with Trickster Tails, Whisketeer and Lady Dragon. The Rabbit heroine was holding here umbrella with a wink, opening it before floating herself from any attacks.

   “Rody!” Lady Dragon rushed over to him, pulling him away and then transformed into Lady Tiger when Slice came to attack them.

   “Out of the way, brats!” Slice growled, but soon screamed out in horror when multiple mouse like creatures were tackling her to the ground.

   Nine sighed tightly, although his eyes looked bloodthirsty as the young heroes were trying to escape with the boy.

   Rody blinked when Lady Dragon transformed into Lady Horse, letting him ride on her and trying to get to the elevator to escape.

   “W-wait, wait! The old man!” Rody tried to explain, but Lady Horse wasn’t having it.

   “No time. We need to get out of here!”

   Not waiting to chance, she diverted herself to crashing against the nearest window, immediately turning into Lady Eagle and grabbing Rody to fly out the building. Bonnie Blanche hopped after them, using her burrows to makeshift jump portals to land next to them.

   Suddenly, Nighteye appeared beside them, as Eraserhead just whooshed past them.

   “Ba—Er, S-Sir Nighteye,” Lady Horse yelped, turning back to Lady Dragon in her normal form as she stared at the stoic man, “W-where have you been?”

   “Had a mission that needed my attention, and it led me to here,” The glass eyed man said with a stern tone, looking to the teens as Trickster Tails and Whisketeer arrived next to them, “You all may go back to the hotel. Let the United Heroez and other heroes deal with the villains inside.”

  “Who are they?” The Fox Heroine asked, watching some United Heroez already coming in.

  “…People associated with The League.”

   The teens paused, looking at the man in surprise before seeing the same villains now fighting with the heroes.

   “We can help,” Bonnie Blanche started, but Sir Nighteye shook his head.

   “Negative. You must go back. Amelie-san has already gotten some of the children into one of the heroes’ portal to Japan. Ladybug and Chat Noir will join us soon, considering the akumatized villain is here in this building.”

   Rody pursed his lips, looking at the now destroyed and burning building, narrowing his eyes. Shaking Lady Dragon off, he started rushing back into the building.

  “Rody!”

  “I need to get that old man! He needs to meet Marinette!”

   Lady Dragon faltered, biting her lower lip before grabbing her own communicator, and dialling up the very number she needed.

  “I’m staying.”

   Ladybug softened as she stared at Izuku, one of the only ones that didn’t go through Door Man’s portal. The others were Bakugo, Todoroki and Chloe.

     Chat Noir, now in a new hero costume, sighed while rubbing his temple.

    “I’m sorry, but only me and Bug are needed for this mission to take down the akumatized villain. The rest can be handled by the adults.”

   “Why are you saying that?” Chloe argued, huffing a bit, “Aren’t we a team? We’re supposed to be working together, Adrikins!”

   “This isn’t your fight to deal with,” Ladybug replied coolly, but then sighed tiredly, “I…I just don’t want to lose anymore people like how we almost lost Rody.”

   Bakugo was quiet, but then spoke up with determination.

   “That shouldn’t stop us from doing what’s right.”

    Izuku agreed with his childhood friend.

   “Indeed. We should fight.”

    Ladybug pursed her lips, before looking to Sparrow, Uncanny Valley, Tsukuyomi, Pixie Girl, The Sorcerer and the Ghost Force crew already waiting for them. Sighing, she looked  back to Izuku then Bakugo, and slowly nodded.

   “Fine.”

  Chat Noir tilted his head in confusion, but soon jumped when Ladybug’s communicator sounded, the heroine soon answering it quietly while her partner listened.

    Uncanny looked to the bird headed boy, “Where is Hawks?”

   “He went to join your mothers and the rest of the United Heroez to find that villain that was akumatized,” Tsukuyomi explained, looking concerned, “We should be joining them soon. Considering that they’ve found him and there are people working for him.”

   “Usually as Techno-Pirate, he works alone,” Sparrow noted, but then heard shouting from the entrance of the hotel, seeing All Might looking frantic with Melissa while Mr. Plastic was yelling down at Zoe.

   “You useless girl! What happened today could’ve been prevented if you had informed me! Informed the United Heroez! You had one mission to keep an eye on the young heroes and you FAILED that!”

   “Zion, please.” All Might tried to coax the man to calm down, Melissa also looking worried.

   “Mr. Plastic, we are still in public.” The blonde girl said quietly, narrowing her eyes, “I suggest you stop screaming at your daughter—“

    “She is not my daughter. She’s barely anything to me!”

    Zoe’s lower lip wobbled, and soon was rushing out of there and through the door, disappearing into the streets of New York.

   “Roaar, Stripes On!”

    Chloe yelled, soon she was transforming into Empress Tigresse and chased after Zoe while Todoroki followed suit, using Pollen to transform into the Bee Hero: King Stinger.

   “You guys, wait!” Ladybug yelled, and soon she and Chat Noir chased after them.

   Bakugo breathed out softly, looking awkward while Izuku looked thoughtful.

   Door-Man also looked awkwardly at the kids, but soon excused himself to maybe help All Might calm down Mr. Plastic, who was already losing his temper more than ever.

   “We should go after them!” Sparrow suggested, rushing out to follow the duo, making the Ghost Force, Pixie Girl and Sorcerer follow suit.

   Uncanny saw how Tsukuyomi was staring at something in his hand, which made her curious.

   “What is that?” She asked, before the bird headed teen shook his head, placing it back in his cloak.

   “It is nothing. Let us depart.”

    And soon the two left.

   Izuku pursed his lips, knowing that he has the Dragon pendant in hand considering that Adrien had given it to him when Bakugo surrendered the Cat Miraculous back to the other blond. Bakugo said that he didn’t deserve it and that it should belong to it’s original owner.

    Izuku, however, knew that wasn’t true.

   Turning to the blond, he took his hand, handing him the Miraculous.

    Bakugo went to protest but his nerd of a childhood friend smiled.

   “There’s no time to think. Let’s be heroes together and help Ladybug and the rest of them!” Izuku said confidently, smiling brightly as he closed Bakugo’s hand around the pendant now resting in his palm.

    Longg appeared in between them, looking at Bakugo before bowing their head, “This one is oozing potential. I approve, for now~”

   Izuku agreed, and looked to the red eyed blond with determination.

   “Ready? Plus Ultra?”

   Bakugo was quiet, before sighing while placing the necklace one, “What if I mess up?”

   “This isn’t like you. Didn’t you say you wanted to surpass me? Surpass All Might and become the Number One Hero?” Izuku huffed out with a laugh of surprise, Bakugo glaring at him.

   “You saw me mess up during the practical tests back in U.A. remember? Twice now going against you and working with you. Then there was Kamino, are you forgetting that?”

   Izuku closed his eyes, shaking his head, “Of course not.”

  “And now almost killing someone. Having that borrowed power made me almost lose sight of things important around me. How can I be number one hero if I am this damn weak. I always seem to be steps behind you while you run forward each and every time.”

   “Kacchan…”

   “So no. Don’t give this thing to me.”

    Bakugo was pushing the Dragon Miraculous back to Izuku, his eyes sullen before hardening, fisting his hands.

    “I’ll use my own power.”

   Empress Tigresse bit her lower lip as she finally found Zoe alone sitting on a rusty fire escape, looking sadly at her shoes.

   King Stinger was right behind the Tiger Heroine, tilting his head, “Is she alright?”

   Sighing, Empress shook her head, “I don’t think so. C’mon,”

    The two heroes soon made their way up to meet the blonde girl, causing the said girl to look up at them with tears.

   “…What do you guys want?”

  “Are you alright?” King Stinger asked softly, tilting his head as his blue eyes stared down at her.

   Zoe shrugged, before toeing at her shoe for a moment with a sigh.

    Empress held her breath, before calmly talking to her so called sister.

   “Look. I don’t know what’s going on with your old man. But you gotta come back with us.”

   “Why? It’s not like I’m needed there.”

    The Tiger Heroine was about to agree, but her Bee partner was shaking his head to not say anything.

   Zoe spoke up again, this time sounding so…broken.

  “I wanted to be an actress. I’m good at acting. But I ended up acting all the time. Playing these different roles, trying to please everyone. Being the so called assistant to Mr. Plastic instead of being treated like family, pretending that I’m okay and having to lie all the time just so I can have friends….and I ended up losing one of my very true best friends that was always there for me…I couldn’t do it anymore.”

  Empress and King looked at each for a moment, before Zoe started sobbing.

   “I-I should’ve listened to Rody back then. I should’ve stood up for myself and be the real me. I just wanted to be accepted for who I am…”

   King Stinger noticed something flying their way, and he couldn’t call out in time when the dark akuma of a butterfly embedded itself into Zoe’s shoes.

   Zoe’s eyes dulled as a glow shaped of a butterfly magically surrounded her top half of her face, showing that she was under whoever was holding the Butterfly Miraculous’ control.

     Empress Tigresse was about to snap her out of it, but King Stinger held her back.

    “Wait—“

    “I SHALL CRUSH ALL THE SOULS THAT HAVE WRONGED ME! STARTING WITH MY SO CALLED FATHER!”

   Darkness of black and purple surrounded Zoe, and the two heroes jumped back away to see the girl transform. She was now all sparkly brilliant amber, with encrusted very light cyan-colored jewels covering her body. Her headdress-like accessory features lightning-shaped horns. Her jacket collar and the backs of her shoes also feature lightning-shaped ornaments.

   “I AM SOLE CRUSHER!” The akumatized Zoe shouted out loud, laughing maniacally, “First Mr. Plastic, AND THEN, LADYBUG AND CHAT NOIR!”

   “Not if we can help it!” Empress Tigresse was raising a hand, calling onto her power, “CLOUT!”

    Sole Crusher smirked, lifting her leg up to kick and block. Empress Tigresse’s eyes widened and moved out of the way, but then gaspde when Sole Crusher stomped on a couple of civilians, watching them turn into gold dust and get absorbed into her shoes.

   “That’s not good.” The Tiger heroine murmured as King Stinger landed next to her, watching how Sole Crusher had gotten bigger.

   “I need more power~” Turning to the heroes, Sole Crusher grinned and stomped over to them, “And you both can give it to me~“

   Before they could react, King Stinger felt something around his waist and was lifted into the air while Empress Tigresse was grabbed in the air, thankfully away from the akuma’s foot stomping at him. The two heroes looked up to see that Pixie Girl and Sorcerer saved them.

    “Thought you needed a hand~” The girl winked down at the Bee Hero, her wings buzzing fast as they flew higher and away from the angry golden monster.

    The Sorcerer was flying next to them, riding on what seemed to be a star shaped staff with Empress Tigresse now riding behind him.

   “We must stop this monster, I think I can cleanse the evil out of her, but it shall take me some time!” Sorcerer explained, seeing the akuma was chasing after them, “I am not efficient as Ladybug is with her charm and spell.”

    The four then watched in horror as Sole Crusher started stomping on more civilians that were trying to run away, causing the akuma to grow even bigger.  

   “She’s gonna go after Mr. Plastic!” Empress Tigresse told the three, his eyes narrowed, “Let’s beat her to him first and think of a plan from there! I’ll call Ladybug!”

  Rody coughed as he was rushing towards where Pala might be, avoiding any confrontations from the heroes and the villains that were fighting. Apparently there were more of them since there were strange monsters popping up left and right. Nomus, Rody’s mind supplied.

   Shaking his head, he soon paused when he saw a figure crawling in pain from the stairwells, and Rody rushed over to see who it was. It was the very man he was looking for��but he looked heavily injured. And seemed to be clutching on something.

   “Old man! I’m here!” Rody coughed once more, knowing that fire has broken out in this building, and knew it was going to collapse and be engulfed in flames pretty soon.

   Pino was chirping frantically, already using her beak and pull at the man’s hair to help Rody get the guy up and get him out of here. The same with the little black kitten, who Rody named Lucky, who was nipping at the man’s hand and coaxing him to stay away. Rody grunted when he helped the guy up, and noticed large claw marks on Pala’s chest.

   And bleeding.

   “Shit shit shit…” Rody was shaking, eyes wide and looking around to stop the blood, “I-I’ll get some help, hold on, just d-don’t—“

   “Rody Soul.”

   Rody looked at the man, who was leaning himself against the wall despite Rody helping him stand to walk, Pala coughing up blood while holding on tightly to what seems to be a staff and something wrapped in cloth. The man looked to Rody, then pushed the wrapped object towards the boy, his eyes full of regret…and acceptance.

   “My time has come. And I apologise for passing down this burden to you, young one.”

  “What…what a-are you talking about?” Rody stuttered out, shaking his head as Pala was closing his eyes.

   “I wanted to find someone that I’ve trained. Someone that I’ve chosen with time and patience. But I suppose destiny had other plans…”

   Rody felt his heart constrict, having a gut wrenching feeling that he wasn’t going to like what he was about to hear.

    “But I rather be you than in the hands of the villains.”

    “What—?”

    “I, Pala of the last Wakan Tanka Tribe, hereby relinquish the Southern Miracle Box, and name Rody Soul as the New Guardian!”

   Rody was about to protest, but a glowing bright light came from the cloth as it unwrapped itself, revealing to be a light brown hexagon shaped box. However, the shape changed itself, so now it was shaped like…

   “A pilot’s briefcase…” Rody murmured, but then noticed that Pala had slowed his breathing, and the boy quickly checked his pulse.

   He waited for a minute, and tried again, but he knew that Pala was gone. Rody bowed his head, holding the briefcase in hand, feeling Pino and Lucky shedding silent tears. The ladybug, who Rody named Lady, just rested against Rody’s head, giving slow beats of it’s wings. Rubbing his eyes, he stood, eyeing the cane like staff next to Pala’s body. Picking it up, the staff shifted into what seems to be a lean bo-staff with a symbol of an airplane on it. Breathing out, Rody clicked at the side of the staff, making it small as he placed it in his pockets.

  “…I’m sorry.” Rody whispered to the unmoving body, giving a small prayer of farewell before holding the Miracle Box and rushing out of there, his spiritual companions following after him.

A/n:   I lied. This story has been on hiatus for so long (I believe for a year or so now?) that this arc is now gonna take TWO MORE PARTS to finish this arc. So, okay, I’ve written the third part already (kind of, still going to edit), but it seems the next chapter will not commence until next year of February 2024. Reason? I have two:

1. I am currently working on real life stuff (So, yes. I am alive, but will be updating very seldomly until I’ve settled down from my hectic sched).

2. I am currently working on other projects (Which will be announced soon)

    So, yes. So be prepared for next year. There will be more Quirk and Miracles content, including the last two parts of his New York Arc, a new chapter banner and some concept arts on certain characters. For those that still follow this story...thank you so much for your love and support.

    - Riri-Chan

[adeandreamguardian]

My story idea for the rest of my Webcomic series.

Okay, so I thought over what will happen after the third page of the pilot comic of Adean the Dragon which I’ll end up naming it Adean the Dream Guardian.

I already wrote a first draft of my story for my original and also maybe fanmade comic Adean the Dream Guardian to start making my webcomic series from. I’ll post it on my secondary tumbler account where I post my webcomic series at as well as on my Deviantart account.

It’s kind of going be based after Dungeons and Dragons with the different races and monsters as well as be based after Animal Crossing which I never played very much of Animal Crossing because before when I played it I couldn’t understand the mechanics of playing the game but basically has the same concept as Disney Dreamlight Valley where you get to live in a town full of villagers or in this case in Disney Dreamlight Valley the Disney characters but it’s where you get to go on little quests for your neighbors, garden plants and crops, organize your town the way you want it, and go on adventures in the Valley.

I want my world that my webcomic is about be inspired after the story concept of both Disney Dreamlight Valley and Animal Crossing with maybe a bit of Dungeons and Dragons sprinkled in but in a more modern setting with the big city of Dreamtopia which is also a bit inspired after the Valley in Disney Dreamlight Valley and the islands in Animal Crossing but it has my own casts of characters and my own world mostly populated with many races mostly of characters and background characters I make myself but might also have canon characters in it (maybe).

Although The Land of Dragons and Dreamtopia are my own worlds with The Land of Dragons actually first thought up by my good friend @drake-the-highlander and the main city idea designed by him too so thanks to him I would have trouble building the world of Adean the Dream Guardian dragon from the ground up.

Originally the city of Dreamtopia was originally supposed to be called Heartfelt City but I actually think that Dreamtopia has a much better ring to it instead so it’s actually a utopia that looks like something out of a dream although it still has its issues at times.

But my story concept is pretty much inspired by Animal Crossing, Disney Dreamlight Valley, Dungeons and Dragons and the world traveling like in Kingdom Hearts or the Super Mario Bros franchise but especially with Kingdom Hearts with traveling to other worlds but without the whole Final Fantasy idea but more of an Animal Crossing and Disney Dreamlight Valley idea instead with hanging out with the citizens of the different areas and going on adventures while still going for the whole day to day life of the story of my webcomic series as well.

I hope to build on more to Adean’s world and work on the webcomic series of Adean the Dream Guardian with also adding a bit of a magic system to my world as well like even adding the Disney characters Merlin from The Sword in the Stone into my world as well being a big help to Adean like a wise mentor or something and Mickey Mouse being the mayor of the city of Dreamtopia with Adean helping out both Merlin and the mayor Mickey Mouse out as well and befriending them even helping out Scrooge Mc Duck help build his shops which my world is not the Dreamlight Valley but it has inspirations from Disney Dreamlight Valley while also having anthro animal characters like in Animal Crossing.

Although in the story Adean is a shapeshifting Dragon girl that changes into many different animals to help out with different tasks in different ways while protecting her world from real harm whenever she takes on different animal forms but mostly stays in her usual dragon form whenever she’s not in her normal human form.

She even has a close relationship with her big sister Kristy Micheals who can also Shapeshift into many different animals with her favorite animal form being a shark and a cat while Adean’s is a dragon and a wolf.

I’m real excited to eventually start working on the worldbuilding of this webcomic and all the characters both my own and canon characters that are from Disney, Dreamworks and some characters from Brand New Animal especially Michiru and Shirou.

I hope I can get in the habit of drawing more backgrounds for the worldbuilding of my webcomic even though I tend to draw more figures then I do actual backgrounds. I even need to practice drawing characters I don’t usually draw like Merlin and Ursula and so on.

Yes I’m inspired by the games Disney Dreamlight Valley mostly to come up with this story with a little bit of Animal Crossing sprinkled in but it’s because I’ve been playing Disney Dreamlight Valley that I want to make my own world that has Disney characters and also anthropomorphic animal characters like from Animal Crossing although besides just my ocs I might add Disney furriesa like Judy Hopps, Nick Wilde, Robin Hood and Little John in my story too even though they are not in the Disney game Disney Dreamlight Valley although since I tend to play it on the weekends I can be inspired by the characters that are in the game to put into my webcomic series as well as Disney characters that don’t even appear in the game like Elliott the Dragon and Nick Wilde and so on.

Yes I know that my webcomic series won’t be 100% original although I’ll try to build the world a bit where the world itself is original as well as some of my original characters in it too like Kento the Tanuki who helps Adean and Kristy out along the way the same with the Disney character Merlin who acts as a guide to Adean as well although Kento works as a tax citizen in Dreamtopia like the tanukis in Animal Crossing but also to help Adean and her sister settle into new world of Dreamtopia both the Land of Dragons and Downtown Dreamtopia while Merlin acts as a guide like he does in the actual gameplay of Disney Dreamlight Valley.

I hope to work on my webcomic pretty soon as I get more drawing practice in to make the webcomic series.

Although I also have other hobbies besides me just making art and stories like reading a good book or so, watching tv, playing video games and so on.

I don’t know when I’ll get started on the webcomic series but as soon as I continue to work on writing the story script and editing it on my Storyist app as well.

But I hope to work on it soon.

@drake-the-highlander @alexcanine @jaysmily2919 @reformedladyfandom @kingnice1219

[raylex]

For the self ship ask thingy; I am super curious about your S/I's background, if you'd be willing to share! And how they met Ray, in extension.

NIGHTMARES!! hi! of course of course, I always love sharing this stuff and talking about it hehe :) I have a TON of stuff developed in my head... I've been wanting to turn some of it into maybe a comic or a fic or something, but haven't really had the time or motivation... maybe someday.

either way, as I talk alot, I predict this is gonna get long, so I'll put it under the cut! yes, I've talked about this before, but no harm in doing it again... I just really like talking lol

so, my self insert, lex, comes from a divine species called stargazers. stargazers are guardians of the universe; their job is to protect and watch over celestial bodies. to keep them out of harm's way, they've developed incredible powers. they're very powerful creatures that are capable of almost anything.

lex... is none of this. and I'm pretty sure that just one single look at him tells you this immediately 😅

he's a dorky little limbless being who can barely even throw a punch. powers? he's got none of those, except for maybe the power to be a cowardly wuss. he's, like, the polar opposite of a mary sue (or gary stu?).

of course, every piece of media needs the character that has the stereotypical amnesia backstory, and that's lex. he's got no idea where he came from, how he ended up in the glade, why he's here... and those are questions that drive him insane. he's got an identity crisis cranked up to 100. all he remembers is that one day he woke up in the glade. that's it. he doesn't know he's technically a supernatural demigod or whatever, and maybe that's for the better... he'd probably freak out if he found out.

due to having never had a need to use his abilities, he never really developed any. and so he considers himself a natural pacifist. he doesn't like fighting, but that may just be because he's too scared to do it... he believes that every conflict can be resolved by talking it out.

despite not knowing who he is or where he came from, he's always felt a deep connection to the stars, and spends most of his time stargazing and just staring up at the night sky while feeling bittersweet and somber.

enter admiral razorbeard, the captain of the robot pirates, who goes on to invade the glade and capture everyone in his way. lex barely has any friends at this point, so he doesn't know this guy is evil. how's he supposed to know? he doesn't pay him much mind, until one day, one of his ships blocks the way of lex's stargazing.

lex, naturally, gets a bit miffed. so he goes to have a word with him... and gets captured in the process. so now he's dealing with both an identity crisis and severe trust issues and paranoia about everyone wanting to cause him harm.

naturally, as we know, this leads to rayman saving the glade as he always does and freeing all of razorbeard's prisoners! and this includes lex.

lex is the final prisoner to be freed by rayman, and the two are immediately intrigued by each other - I don't wanna say it's love at first sight, but there's definitely a spark of something there. fascination? curiosity?

lex is very wary of rayman at first. he barely talks, avoids eye contact, and is just generally on high alert. the only people he's tried to interact with had him imprisoned, so he doesn't exactly trust other people just yet. rayman, of course, understands this. because he's a good guy. and he's more than willing to let lex take his time. but he's determined to make sure this fella feels at home.

have (a transparent version of) this art I did of their first meeting a while back :)

[centrally-unplanned]

Since @the-grey-tribe was discussing it and I have also seen the spread of the “Sacrificial Trash” term in media discourse around, I watched the titular Sarah Z video on the topic. Honestly it was better than her average video I would say! It still has some flaws, and her and I have some ideological disagreements that are fundamental; I for example do not think just because others have been criticizing say High Guardian Spice in bad faith that I need to refrain from doing so. In particular she says, at one point, that “watching some criticism when you aren’t sure what those creators are doing to mitigate their harm” is maybe problematic, which I just cannot get on board with. 

I think she buys into the idea of the “sea of hatred” concept out there, of the idea that even 1% of the people who watched like the Ghostbusters remake trailer sent threats to the creators, when its really more like 0.0001%. I think the mindset blinkers her analysis - beyond the culture war merchants who are ‘bigots’ are also large factions of people who just argue about media online, who prefer show type A over B, who are legit tired of ‘politics’ in shows because it reduces their enjoyment, whatever. Understanding that why something becomes a target is multifactional is important - like the Little Mermaid remake being a *Disney* movie in the age of Disney getting a ton of crap for being percieved as a predatory corporate monopoly is also a relevant factor! 

But once I set aside the framings & background premises that we just don’t share, I respect at least her clarity of analysis on how discourse targets are arbitrary, and composed numbers-wise primarily by regulars sharing opinions and just not liking media, and most of them probably aren’t even politically motivated. Additionally it is good to point out how large the ecosystem of hate on these things can get - you should not ever be making 24 video essays on High Guardian Spice, but people have done that as culture war topics create self-fulfilling spirals. She definitely keeps it entirely focused on fandom discourse - its not even marketing or interviews by the companies, her use of the term is all about how culture war dynamics can elevate certain media by channeling a wider-than-normal participant base. 

So yeah, her phrase is absolutely being taken out of context as it has undergone memetic shift to refer to ‘official’ channels throwing out culture war bait, when she intended it to be the opposite.

[dyns33]

I saw Thor: Love and Thunder. I'll try to not spoil anything.

- Good point : no need to have seen anything other than Endgame to understand the plot.

- I preferred this to Doctor Strange and The Multiverse of Madness.

- Gorr... is a good villain. Not the best. A little predictable. But I like his look.

- The rhythm is uneven. I didn't get bored, the battle scenes are okay, but sometimes it was too long.

- Some scenes embarrassing too. The jokes are not always funny.

- Okay, the little ‘fight’ of jealousy between the three weapons is a bit funny. I won’t tell you more. 

- Ragnarok's play is magnificent. Hela is magnificent. (People are finally Loki fans, like in Hawkeye and this awful musical !)

- I still don't like Korg, he annoys me.

- The Guardians are useless.

- Valkyrie is cool.

-Jane. Lady Thor. Why not. I am not convinced. I can't say anything else without spoilers. Just, why do superheroes always have only one great love ? The world is wide, man, and you’re an old God, find someone else.

- The ending isn't great.

- My biggest regret is that I find that Thor does not really evolve. He's been there since phase 1 and he’s still more or less the same. Every time he learns something, he seems to become a little wiser, but in the next film, he does the same bullshit again. Okay, he's less selfish and helping others, but still acting like an idiot. Even Loki changed, way before the series. 

- It had been said, and I'll spare you any disappointment : no Loki. It's a shame, I would have loved to see him passing by in the background when Thor was naked. He would have been shocked, to see his brother like that, and by the tattoo, before leaving through a VAT portal.

- The other Gods resemble those of Moon Knight, but less classy. They are what I picture when I imagine Gods. 

- Moon Knight is better. Watch Moon Knight. This is the best thing about phase 4.

- There is no reference to Moon Knight, except for the name "Ra" spoken in a sentence, I'm sad.

- I don't know yet if I will buy the DVD. Maybe.

[plutobutartsy]

no because i've been thinking a lot about how i would rewrite mlb even though i'm NOT a writer lol so here's a list of things i can think of right now:

chloe redemption!! they did her so dirty she deserves so much better and there's so much wasted potential :( i would go more in detail about her family issues and how they affect her. with zoe i think it would make sense for chloe to see her as a sort of rival, as in wanting to be the favourite child and being scared that with zoe being there, her mom will spend even less time with her

we all know that marinette's crush on adrien is very obsessive and that the show portrays her creepy behaviour as normal. so. none of that. i think in the beginning she would put him on a pedestal and act accordingly but she would soon realize that he's. just a dude. and acknowledge that her way of thinking was wrong. this would also lead to her being a bit less nervous and stutter-y around him lol and to them actually being able to build a closer friendship

a similar thing with adrien and ladybug! to me it feels like in the show chat noir is a lot more of a sidekick so maybe in the beginning he also had a pretty glorified view of ladybug which caused him to rely a bit too much on her? if that makes sense?? so when he eventually starts to realize that under the mask she's also just a person he would take a much more active role you know?

alternatively i think it could also tie into underlying self-esteem issues, like "ladybug is so great and amazing, there's no way i could do more than just follow her lead, i'd just get in the way"

less irresponsible adults

they are 14. they need help. su han actually had a point when he said that they were just kids. so he would definitely take on more of a mentor role. maybe him and marinette would compromise that, for now, she would renounce her role as guardian and let him take over. in exchange, he would start training her so she's ready to take on the role when she is an adult and can handle it better.

su han would also train marinette and adrien when it comes to fighting and understanding their powers because it's just so unrealistic that they learned how to fight perfectly on the fly lmaoo so i think while they have come a long way on their own, they still need a lot more guidance

obviously he would know both their identities and you know. be an actually responsible adult. so he would deffo be a support system for them (especially for adrien because jesus that boy has no trusted adult figure in his life </3 he would probably pose as an ordinary tutor or something to by-pass gabriel)

su han would also do a lot more of the background hero work. so researching the miraculous', looking into potential temporary holders that AREN'T all children and from the same social circle as marinette, and especially going after clues to find out who shadowmoth is

moving on

i really hated how lukanette ended up being portrayed on the show

so personally, i find it much better for them to be friends until eventually marinette gets over adrien. she realizes that if she doesn't confess to him, nothing would change. lukanette wouldn't happen until marinette is over her feelings for adrien

design changes. so many of them. i especially hate rose's outfit i'm sorry it's hideous lol i might actually draw some redesigns and post them on my art blog :)

that's all i can think of right now

[k1ll3r-k4rg0]

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blogged. this blog is for my character thoughts and my art and my writing. if you want character related reblogs, art reblogs, and complaints go to @k4rg0-f1l3z

i post sexual shit, gore, and other r rated heavy topics. my stories and ocs are r rated. if you don't like heavy topics, dead dove do not eat, whump, gore, violence, suicide, stuff that deals with mental illness problems, don't follow.

if you don't like it, don't follow! i post for myself and my friends! i post what i want! my writing is an escape and a way for me to process my own shit in the world i live in as well as a way to cope. if you don't like it LEAVE

i do a LOT of art and a LOT of writing. however. i forget to post it. so this blog's kinda dead!!! if you want to see more shit from me or of a specific character, don't be afraid to ask and i'll gladly share

ask box always open

about me? im 23, prepping to apply for a phd program in school psychology with a bachelor's in fine arts in screenwriting. i write prose and draw pictures of my ocs with backgrounds coz i love drawing backgrounds

check out my bestie's blogs @yeenteefies for main and @honsebeasts for his really cool awesome neat ocs who i have many stories / ships with

i also play dnd! every week!!! with my super cool awesome dnd friends from college. i play a conquest paladin aasimar (that's warren). he's too much. the tag for stuff related to the party is just #yeehoes

i have bpd, autism, & adhd. if you don't like that, don't follow. i'm unmedicated, but i'm more under control these days.

I do not tag others art or the fandoms the art's from. I only tag for gore (#gore, #blood), flashing (#flashing), spiders/insects (#spiders, #insects, #bugs), or unreality (#unreality). If there's any you want me to add, lemme' know and I'll consider it (I'll probably say yes unless its SUPER specific coz i might forget).

OCS + favorite books, music, movie, etc under the cut.

Trivia: —half Romanian, half Texmex (czech/german + mexican) —fave movie is Fargo —my space sci-fi shit is largely inspired by the tv show The Expanse.

Fave Bands: —Muse (favorite songs are In Your World and Dead Star) —Linkin Park —Amigo the Devil —Nine Inch Nails —Calexico —Brown Bird —Rammstein —MCR occasionally

Fave Books: —American Gods by Neil Gaiman —We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver —Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy —maybe Pet Sematary by Stephen King who is my favorite author

Main OCS:

Vini + Quinn (#vini.png, #quinn.net, #d3m0litionl0v3rs): besties who kill together. vini's quinn's guardian angel. quinn's vini's little death. they've died for each other countless times and their bond is unbreakable. not human anymore

Elliot (#elliot.png): shitfaced. hurt. fucked. broken. pissed off at the world for the shit it's put him through. wishing he could kill them all Derek (#derek.png): strange. alienated. scared. scared of everyone for treating him like another. wishing they'd see how above them he is. Elliot + Derek (#code voltage): besties. too much. freaks. human sometimes. there's an 80s au where they're monsters Derek + Jordan (#prince.png, @/honsebeast's) (#strange&unusual): what you get when a god finds another god when the first god thought he was the last of his kind. They click. They understand each other on a completely different level. Elliot + Kalani (#kalani.png, @/hurrl's) (#chocolatestrawberries): he'll die for her. she'll kill for him. she taught him a lesson and he learned better. now he's as obsessed with her as she is with him. She loves him so much, but it's okay because he needs her love to survive.

Mars (#mars.png): rocky younger years have lead to a chiller middle-aged life. trying to gather the pieces and learn to live again. how you kill the monster? love the monster. human Mars + Danny (@/honsebeast's) (#armada): i love you when no one else will. you love me despite all my flaws. you make me human again.

Warren + Jay (#warren.png, #jay.png, #4m3r1c4nm4n14cs): the fire the flame and the burning smoldering ember. a serial killer and his priest, a god and his follower. two of the same. die for each other to live again. human unless angel.

Cody (#cody.png): broken bruised forgotten sore, too fucked up to care anymore. that's what happens when you back a kid into a corner. he bites to kill.

Other OCs that aren't that important right now that you'll occasionally see tagged but that I won't link are as follows: Ryfraf (whore), Riymah (scary clown goth gf), Derwood (taxidermist), Blue (hacker), Pork/Porkrinds (the happiest merc you've ever seen, @/honsebeast's).



[garfieldsladybird]

I lost interest in S.H.I.E.L.D when season six started and when I started watching season 6 I was just so done with it. Not understanding anything that was going on.

But now that I’m older and I’m watching it again, I’m actually paying attention every single episode, as much as I possibly can and I’m also not allowing myself to just play the show as background noise.

notes ;)))) also spoilers if you haven’t watched shield 🤨

season six actually starting pretty good. idk man. pass me was. Like usual.

I’m on s6 e6, I just started episode six. but from what I know right now— idk I kind of just go in rants about things. Enjoy :)

so Daisy and Simmons and two other people (that I actually feel like are best friends, that really don’t want to admit it and i feel like one of them is gay) but that’s beside the point. they all went to space. deep space. they become the guardians of the Galaxy man. now how? Because they had the spaceship from season five, that spaceship was the spaceship at the general took over. Well, I think they took the little thingy that if you just put coordinates in it and flip a switch you get teleported to that spot. but still use the Zephyr so they most likely had to add the space thingys it can do from the spaceship. They went to go find fitz. dont get me started on that.

Wait, so fitz is alive and so is Simmons. and so is their grandchild. That was from the future. Deke yes ? 🤨 but yeah he’s alive as well. But fits died at the end of season five. But didn’t really die. He was in a coma, was supposed to be in a coma for fucking 75 years. Poor dude, he’s had to be in a coma for 75 years twice. But he didn’t really make the full 75 years because some weird sharp ass fidget spinner ran through their ship in space. so yeah.

so does mean that the world of where deke came from is still going to happen? That’s the only thing I’m focused on. I love deke ngl. He’s hot ;)

but while they’re doing that. The team on the mainland is chasing down a duplicate of Colson from a different world that’s been alive for like fucking years. And I mean hundreds of years. They’re chasing him down because Colson’s actually dead. Also, I feel like we should’ve gotten more of Colson and may, I really would’ve loved to see them together and seen them happy. Though I’m getting only some glimpses now (e5) and I’m not fully through the season yet so yeah there might be more. Still, I love Colson and may!

Mack and yo-yo broke up. like what?????? and then yo-yo also got with this other dude which ended up going horribly wrong she killed him well just really put them out of his misery. He swallowed a bat but he didn’t want to. it kind of just flew into him so yeah. but I did kind of like them together, but there was just a weird vibe because she kept calling him noble and then he would act a certain way… idk. He had it coming. (iykyk)

Mack being director is really cool, i want more!!! I like that he has a really close bond with Daisy. tremors <3 like Daisy was calling back into the lighthouse to land, and when they finally fully connected it, you could just kind of see it when he heard her voice. The relief, knowing that she’s back, hearing her voice. They’re very close and connected and I really like that. They got each other’s back, upside down, side to side, left, right, front too man. Maybe he kind of looks at her like a sibling.. idk. I would like to know, but I don’t know. If anything, it’s a best friend for sure. Kind of what he had with Bobby but better fs like wayyyyyyyyy better.

Bobby and Hunter man are so bad for each other. though I do love them together. I just I don’t know. Somethings up with them. I love them in general. Bobby’s hot and so cool. Hunter is hilarious but also a jack ass in a way and fairly attractive, him being funny, kind of helps it.

Deke is so fucking weird for having a girlfriend but then going to ‘work’ which is going into a simulation VR type of thing, it was like the framework but way better, and inside of it when he beats the bad guy, a door slides up and daisy appears but looking way sexier then usual like she does look sexy, but not in the way of having a lot more cleavage out, pressing up all against him, the leg 🦵…. yeah so it was weird. he also has a screen that shows what he’s saying and going through, how did the girlfriend not see this and know bro? She’s like a social media star, and so we get to see all of her story that she made. just uha. she ends up with the best friend that wasn’t actually deke’s best friend well he didn’t really know know him bc he is actually a undercover shield agent.

but mack saw the screen of what was happening in the framework and she’s slowly turned to deke and is was hilarious and horrible at the same time. His face was like in a grimace of ‘what the fuck and I’m about to punch you’ so deke said, I’ll give you 2% of the company if you don’t tell anyone. I feel like that 2% went higher fs but I don’t remember if it was actually 2% or not. Either way it should’ve been like a lot more. but Mack is protective of her, I really like that.

The acting in the show was really good. It’s phenomenal.

okay bye ✌️ love you <3

[covemains]

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